Download profile images (icons) for everyone from Slack

To make a roulette to choose one person for the closing party, I took a photo of all the employees from Slack.

Let's get the URL of the user's icon with the API. https://slack.com/api/users.list?token=xoxb-12345678-12345679-thairoo1airi6om7Ahga In this way, you need to issue a valid token to get the information of all users in json.

If you don't have the token, go to https://api.slack.com/apps/ "Create New App", select "Permission" after creating with a name, "User Token Scopes" Set ʻusers.read. When you press install, a token starting with xoxb` will be issued. This was detailed with an image.

Once you have a valid token ready, you can download it with the following python script. Click here for the repository (gist).

download-slack-profile-pictures.py

import requests
import time

TOKEN = "xoxb-12345678-12345679-thairoo1airi6om7Ahga"


def main():
    url = "https://slack.com/api/users.list?token=" + TOKEN
    response = requests.get(url)
    response.raise_for_status()
    for i, member in enumerate(response.json()['members']):
        image512px_url = member['profile']['image_512']
        print(i + 1, image512px_url)
        response = requests.get(image512px_url)
        response.raise_for_status()
        filename = f"./{member['team_id']}-{member['id']}-{member['name']}.jpg "
        with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
            f.write(response.content)
        time.sleep(1)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()