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slack importer: Update Documentation with slack's legacy token method.

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Rhea Parekh
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`slack_data.zip`. Currently we only support standard export. See `slack_data.zip`. Currently we only support standard export. See
https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-data-and-message-history https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-data-and-message-history
for more detail on this step. for more detail on this step.
2. Convert the zip file `slack_data.zip` to Zulip export format using the 2. Generate a Slack API token using Slack's test
command `./manage.py convert_slack_data <slack_zip_file> <organization_name> --output <output_dir>`. [token generator](https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens)
3. Import the converted data. If you are importing into an existing database, to import all of the necessary data. We use this as current Slack exports don't
run the command `./manage.py import --import-into-nonempty <output_dit>`, include user's email data, however, we still get that data from Slack's older
method of legacy tokens.
**Note:** Once Slack starts including user emails in the exports,
this extra step of using legacy tokens to get user data would no longer be
necessary.
3. Convert the zip file `slack_data.zip` to Zulip export format using the command
`./manage.py convert_slack_data <slack_zip_file> <organization_name> --token <token> --output <output_dir>`.
4. Import the converted data. If you are importing into an existing database,
run the command `./manage.py import --import-into-nonempty <output_dir>`,
otherwise, if you are importing into a new Zulip instance, run the command otherwise, if you are importing into a new Zulip instance, run the command
`./manage.py import --destory-rebuild-database <output_dir>`. `./manage.py import --destory-rebuild-database <output_dir>`.