DiscordChatExporter/Readme.md

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 check out the wiki.

Download

DiscordChatExporter comes in two flavors: graphical user interface (GUI) and command line interface (CLI).

• Graphical user interface (Windows-only)

  • Recommended: Download DiscordChatExporter.zip from latest release [requires .NET runtime]
  • Download DiscordChatExporter.zip from latest CI build [requires .NET runtime]

• Command line interface (Windows, Linux, and macOS)

  • Recommended: Download DiscordChatExporter.CLI.zip from latest release [requires .NET runtime]
  • Download DiscordChatExporter.CLI.zip from latest CI build [requires .NET runtime]
  • Install from Docker Hub: docker pull tyrrrz/discordchatexporter
  • Install from Arch Linux User Repository: yay -S discord-chat-exporter-cli [community-maintained]

Important: This application requires .NET Core v3.1 runtime in order to run. Some download options come with the runtime pre-packaged, but those marked with [requires .NET runtime] do not. To install the runtime, find a suitable download option below:

• Windows: x64 | x86
• macOS: x64
• Linux: find your distribution here

Features

• Graphical user interface (Windows)
• Command line interface (Windows, Linux, macOS)
• Works with both user and bot tokens
• Exports on the fly without buffering messages in memory
• Allows exporting messages in a specified range
• Supports file partitioning based on message count
• Uses custom markdown parser compatible with Discord syntax
• Handles all rich media features, including attachments, embeds, emojis, etc
• Renders to HTML (dark & light), TXT, CSV, JSON

Screenshots