alkanife / discord-to-json

Export Discord messages to JSON

discord-to-json

Overview • Usage • Project dependencies • License

Overview

Export Discord messages to JSON (message content, author name, and date ; it does not download attachments)

Disclaimer: this is probably very much against Discord's TOS. I am not responsible if you have any issues with Discord after using this program. Use it with knowledge of the consequences it may have, and use it for personal, harmless, non-commercial purposes.

Usage

This project requires Java 17 or higher.

Usage: java -jar discord-to-json [options]
  Options:
    --channel, -c
      The Discord channel id, only required if not using URL
    --cycles, -C
      The number of download cycles, < or = to 0 is infinite
      Default: 0
    --delay, -d
      The time between each download cycle
      Default: 5000
    --guild, -g
      The Discord guild id, only required if not using URL
    --help, -h
      Print usage
      Default: false
    --limit, -l
      The number of messages downloaded each cycle
      Default: 70
    --logs, -L
      Keep logs to the desired file path. Example: 'logs.txt'
    --message, -m
      The first message's URL
      (https://discord.com/channels/guildId/channelId/messageId)
    --messageid, -mid
      The first message's id, only required if not using URL
    --output, -o
      Output file name. Will use {date}.json by default
    --replace, -r
      Replace output file if already existing
      Default: false
    --token, -t
      Discord token
    --tokenFile, -tf
      File containing the Discord token
      Default: token
    --debug, --verbose, -D
      Debug/verbose mode
      Default: false
    --version, -v
      Print usage
      Default: false

Project dependencies

See Maven Dependencies.

License

Under the MIT license.