MYmystraline·Mar 12, 2026Submission
Discord starts banning accounts on using message export tools
1 points · Open discussionTyrrrz
DiscordChatExporter
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Tyrrrz / DiscordChatExporter
DiscordChatExporter
Saves Discord chat logs to a file
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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15 sourcesIts not difficult to archive yourself, if you really care[0]
I use a dedicated alt account to archive tons of various servers I'm in, and auto-download all attachments. It's nice having regex search capabilities on my local copy of the data too.
[0] https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
In Discord Unveiled: A Comprehensive Dataset of Public Communication (2015-2024)Discord's back end is amazing and they've blogged about a lot of it over the years (https://hn.algolia.com?query=%22How%20Discord%22). Not as smooth sailing on the front end though, and unfortunately they threaten to ban accounts using alternative clients, though there have been several (https://hn.algolia.com?query=Discord%20client).
Discord is good enough for most users and since it was one of the first to fully leverage WebRTC in-browser for voice chat (without requiring an account), the network effect is almost impossible to overcome at this point. This is incredibly unfortunate as closed chat ecosystems are an information black hole (except possibly when user generated content is licensed to the highest bidder for LLM training, what a gold mine!)
PS. It's worth mentioning in any Discord discussion with the (though the usual "could ge
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t banned" caveat applies): it is possible to export from Discord using https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
Either https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter or https://www.answeroverflow.com/about (I develop the second one)
In SlackdumpMaybe this: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
In SlackdumpDiscordChatExporter: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
It's a standalone program using the API in a nonstandard way but I don't think anyone's been banned for using it yet.
In Unlocking Discord Nitro features for freeIn case anyone is not aware, you can download Discord logs.
https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
But beware -- it can result in account termination!
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002192352-A...
In IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)A nifty tool to archive chats: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
In Discord, or the Death of LoreUnofficial / unauthorized with unique ToU: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
In Discord, or the Death of Lorehttps://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
Always scared to earn a ToS ban using something like this though.
In Discord is a black hole for informationNot true. Good luck exporting the issues, pull requests, comments, discussions, wikis, etc. and bringing those to another platform.
Ironically (and I am not defending them), Slack[0] is the only one of the three that has an official way to export all messages. GitHub does not, unless you're counting their API, but then maybe you want to consider Discord things like this[1]?
[0] https://slack.com/help/articles/201658943-Export-your-worksp...
[1] https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
In Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer communityThank you for looking into this! My first thought reading their story was "They must've used their discord token in some unusual way."
... which is exactly what I've been doing too: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
Do you happen to know: Is there a risk of Discord banning me for using that tool to automatically export chat logs for processing via a bash script?
Basically, it's a tool to convert discord servers into json.
Their official wiki gives instructions for using your personal user token rather than any bot / API token: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter/wiki/Obtaining...
I admit, I used my personal token without giving it a second thought, even though I should've known better. I haven't been banned, but this story reminded me that I should be careful. Am I being overly paranoid? Is it fine to use your person
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al token in situations like this, where it's basically a CLI tool?
Also, I run a discord server for ML with ~1k users. If I get banned by Discord, will server ownership transfer to someone else? Or will the whole server get knocked offline too?
Feel free to ignore this if you want -- I'm merely asking in case you happened to know. Happy thanksgiving!
Ask HN: What are your prefered tools \ workflow for internet research?
I'm working on a collaborative curation project, and trying to jump-start an internet-research \ collaborative curation branch of the open-source movement.
I'm sure there are others working on similar ideas, but I haven't found them, or not many.
My preferred method is to use discord servers as something of a social-cms (with some help from https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter/ )...
I use the share button integration on my phone to share links to the appropriate channel of a server (even better when on desktop w ctrl+k)
I have a few discord servers for different topics I'm studying, and even multiple servers with hundreds of channels breaking down various aspects of one large subject.
Rather than trying to get people engaged with this platform who don't use it, I'd rather tap into their existing research workflows
I know some peo
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ple like to organize information in:
-Awesome Lists
-Excel \ Google Sheets
-Wikis
-Hackmd.io
-various note apps.....
would love to hear about how you do internet research, especially if you like to work with big topics, or deep within your chosen niche.
https://sourcecrypto.pub/archive/
<<<POC using discord (and minimal-mistakes-jekyll) as a social curation\research cms.
Thanks
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DiscordChatExporter – ultimate solution for archiving Discord chat logs
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