Selenium: Delete all messages in #general

Problem

May I delete entirely purge messages in #general channel?

• The answer is NO. ಠ_ಠ

Below is the response from slack support team: (2014/12/19):

You can bulk delete messages in batches of up 100 at a time from the archives page for a channel or group: https://my.slack.com/archives — the first time you use delete you'll be able to select up to 10 messages, but on subsequent attempts you'll be able to select up to 100.

Solution

Prerequisite

• Firefox
• selenium-ide-x.x.x.xpi - Selenium IDE
• Selenium Scripts
  • sideflow.js - A Selenium Core Extenstion
  • deleteslacklog.html - A Selenium Test Case, we use it for delete all messages.
• Install Selenium just simply drag-and-drop selenium-ide-x.x.x.xpi into Firefox
• You are ready to go!

Start

• Open https://my.slack.com/archives/general via Firefox
• Open Selenium IDE
  • Setup Selenium Core Extenstion in options->general choose sideflow.js and restart Selenium IDE.
  • Open Test(script) ctrl-o select deleteslacklog.html you have downloaded.
• Click the play button and take a coffee ☕

🎉~ Now you have a whole new #general channel!

License

MIT: http://yulun.mit-license.org