Slack doesn't allow anymore to rename channels without an Entreprise token. It's behing the admin scopes. With a bot token, it can only rename channels that it owns basically.
The main.py script counters that by using a user token from the web app.
- Inspect the slack web app
- Find a request to the slack API
- Get the "token" data in the multipart / get params and store it in
.env - Get the
dcookie value and store it in.env
Parameters are set with a .env file. An example is provided below.
SLACK_COOKIES_D=cookie
SLACK_TOKEN=xoxc-token
SLACK_DOMAIN=example.slack.com
After running the script a first time, a channels.json state file is created. Modify this file by adding a rename field to the channels you'd like to rename.
Comment the call to refresh_channels. Otherwise the modification you have made would be overwritten.
Run main.py again. The channels are renamed.