DiscordChatExporter

✅ Project status: active^[?]

DiscordChatExporter can be used to export message history from a Discord channel to a file. It works with direct messages, group messages, and server channels, and supports Discord's dialect of markdown as well as all other rich media features.

❓ If you have questions or issues, please refer to the wiki

Terms of use

By using this project or its source code, for any purpose and in any shape or form, you grant your implicit agreement to all the following statements:

• You condemn Russia and its military aggression against Ukraine
• You recognize that Russia is an occupant that unlawfully invaded a sovereign state
• You support Ukraine's territorial integrity, including its claims over temporarily occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas
• You reject false narratives perpetuated by Russian state propaganda

To learn more about the war and how you can help, click here. Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦

Download

This application comes in two flavors: graphical user interface (GUI) and command line interface (CLI). The following table lists all available download options:

	Downloads	Supported OS
GUI	🟢 Stable release (DiscordChatExporter.zip) 🟠 CI build (DiscordChatExporter.zip)	Windows 7 or higher
CLI	🟢 Stable release (DiscordChatExporter.CLI.zip) ⚙️ 🟠 CI build (DiscordChatExporter.CLI.zip) ⚙️ 🐋 Docker (tyrrrz/discordchatexporter) 📦 AUR (discord-chat-exporter-cli) 🦄	Windows 7 or higher macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or higher Linux (multiple distros)

• ⚙️ - Requires .NET runtime to be installed manually:
  • .NET v6.0 Runtime for Windows x64
  • .NET v6.0 Runtime for Windows x86
  • .NET v6.0 Runtime for macOS x64
  • .NET v6.0 Runtime for Linux (find your distro)
• 🦄 - Community-maintained resource

Features

• Graphical user interface (Windows)
• Command line interface (Windows, Linux, macOS)
• Support for both user and bot tokens
• Support for Discord's dialect of markdown
• Support for Discord's message filter syntax
• Support for attachments, embeds, emoji, and other rich media features
• Multiple output formats: HTML (dark/light), TXT, CSV, JSON
• File partitioning, date ranges, and other export options
• Exports messages on the fly without buffering in-memory

Screenshots

Building the project locally

Prerequisites:

• .NET 6.0 SDK
• (Recommended) C#/.NET IDE, such as JetBrains Rider, VS Code, or Visual Studio.

To build the entire solution run the following command in the root of the repository:

> dotnet build

This will generate runtime artifacts for each project:

./DiscordChatExporter.Gui/bin/[Debug|Release]/[runtime]/*
./DiscordChatExporter.Cli/bin/[Debug|Release]/[runtime]/*

You can also build and run a specific project directly. To do that, navigate to its directory and use dotnet run:

> cd DiscordChatExporter.Gui
> dotnet run