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.

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 Core v3.1 Runtime for Windows x64
  • .NET Core v3.1 Runtime for Windows x86
  • .NET Core v3.1 Runtime for macOS x64
  • .NET Core v3.1 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, emojis, 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 5.0 SDK
• .NET 3.1 SDK (temporarily as the app still targets .NET 3.1, but requires .NET 5.0 to build)
• (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