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Webex Teams Archiver

Simple utility to archive Webex Teams rooms


Webex Teams Archiver extracts the messages and files out of a Webex Teams room and saves them in text, HTML, and JSON formats.

Example

from webexteamsarchiver import WebexTeamsArchiver

personal_token = "mytoken"
archiver = WebexTeamsArchiver(personal_token)

# room id from https://developer.webex.com/docs/api/v1/rooms/list-rooms
room_id = "Y2lzY29zcGFyazovL3VzL1JPT00vd2ViZXh0ZWFtc2FyY2hpdmVy"
archiver.archive_room(room_id)

Produces the following files:

$ ls
Title_Timestamp.tgz
Title_Timestamp

$ ls Title_Timestamp/
Title_Timestamp.html
Title_Timestamp.json
Title_Timestamp.txt
attachments/
avatars/
space_details.json

Below is an example of a simple room that got archived.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CiscoDevNet/webex-teams-archiver/master/sample.png

Note 1: The HTML version of the archive requires Internet connectivity because of the CSS, which is not packaged with the archive because of licensing conflicts.

Note 2: Please note that use of the Webex Teams Archiver may violate the retention policy, if any, applicable to your use of Webex Teams.

Installation

Installing and upgrading is easy:

Install via PIP

$ pip install webexteamsarchiver

Upgrading to the latest Version

$ pip install webexteamsarchiver --upgrade

Options

The archive_room method exposes the following options:

Argument Default Value Description
text_format True Create a text version of the archive
html_format True Create an HTML version of the archive
json_format True Create a JSON version of the archive

In addition, the options kwargs supports the following additional options today:

Argument Default Value Description
compress_folder True Compress archive folder
delete_folder False Delete the archive folder when done
reverse_order True Order messages by most recent on the bottom
download_attachments True Download attachments sent to the room
download_avatars True Download avatar images
download_workers 15 Number of download workers for downloading files
timestamp_format %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S Timestamp strftime format
file_format gztar Archive file format

Questions, Support & Discussion

webexteamsarchiver is a community developed and community supported project. Feedback, thoughts, questions, issues can be submitted using the issues page.

Contribution

webexteamsarchiver is a community developed project. Code contributions are welcome via PRs!

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