Slack – How to show all channels I am part of from multiple Slack workspaces

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We have 2+ workspaces in Slack Enterprise, and I see the shared organizational channels on the two tabs I have open to Slack. However in each tab I see the workspace-specific channels.

I know it's possible to switch Workspaces within one window, but how do I get a list of workspaces and channels?

Or is that only possible in the desktop app? Or am I doomed to keep switching to different tabs for different workspaces?

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On the website you can use the Quick Switcher to switch between channels on workspaces

Otherwise you have to download the desktop app. In the sidebar where channels are listed it also shows another sidebar to the left of that which shows all the workspaces that you are part of:

In the screenshot above you can see that there are 6 workspaces in the sidebar.

Shared channels appear in the channels list under "Organization Channels"

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Slack – How to efficiently archive Slack channels

To actually "slack-archive" the channels, ie the equivalent of running "/archive" within each channel, you'll need some API magic.

First, set up an API token for your user in the relevant team on https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens, then go to https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.list/test to get a json-listing of your channels together with the channel ids.

Then use these channel ids to run https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.archive/test for the channels you want to archive.

Here is a quick and dirty bash script (which uses jq) I recently ran on my Mac in order to archive the hundreds of channels that contained "sk-" in the channel name:

TOKEN="replace-this-with-your-user-api-token-in-the-relevant-team"
curl "https://slack.com/api/channels.list?token=$TOKEN&exclude_archived=true&pretty=1" > /tmp/channels.list
IDS=$(cat /tmp/channels.list | jq '.channels[] | select(.name | contains("sk-")) | .id' | sed -e 's/"//g')
for ID in $IDS; do
    URL="https://slack.com/api/channels.archive?token=$TOKEN&channel=$ID&pretty=1"
    echo $URL
    curl "$URL"
done

It got the job done, archiving about 2-3 channels per second.

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