Simple web service (client only) for downloading Webex chat spaces to your local hard drive.
After you download a space, it is available as a local folder on your disk with HTML file and files for attachement, images and avatars, and can be viewed completely offline and independent of any web service or Webex.
Useful if:
- A colleague is about to leave, and you need to preserve important information from your chat
- You need to keep information from valuable spaces over long time (messages are deleted from Webex after ca 3 years)
- You need to store history for legal reasons
This web tool is inspired by a similar Python-based archive tool with roughly provides the same feature set.
- A valid Webex user account
- A compatible browser (Chrome, Edge or Opera)
- Obtain your Personal Access token by logging in at developer.webex.com, go to https://developer.webex.com/docs/getting-started and copy your token.
- Open the Webex Archives in a compatible browser
- Paste the token on the first page
- Find the room you want to take backup of, either by locating it in the Webex app and copying the space details, or by listing your spaces and finding it in the app
- Choose what you want to download
- Select a folder where the content will be stored on your local disk
- Start the download
After download has completed, the archive will be available in the folder you selected, and can be opened in a browser by double tapping the index.html file.
Feedback and questions can be directed to Tore Bjolseth in Cisco (Norway). For technical issues and bugs you can submit Issues on the GitHub project page.