DiscordChatExporter

🟡 Project status: maintenance mode^[?]

DiscordChatExporter is an application that can be used to export message history from any 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 most other rich media features.

❔ If you have questions or issues, please refer to the docs.

💬 If you want to chat, join my Discord server.

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`) 📦 Nix (`discordchatexporter-cli`)	Windows 7 or higher macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) or higher Linux (multiple distros)

Note: AUR and Nix packages linked above are maintained by the community. If you have any issues with them, please contact the corresponding maintainers.

Warning: To run DiscordChatExporter on macOS and Linux, you need to make sure that .NET 7.0 Runtime is installed. You can download it here:

.NET 7.0 Runtime for macOS x64

.NET 7.0 Runtime for macOS Arm64

.NET 7.0 Runtime for Linux (find the correct download for your distro)

This should not be necessary if you install DiscordChatExporter using a package manager, as it should take care of the dependencies for you. This is also not necessary if you are running DiscordChatExporter via Docker, because the image already contains the runtime.

Features

Graphical user interface (Windows)
Command-line interface (Windows, Linux, macOS)
Authentication via both user and bot tokens
Multiple output formats: HTML (dark/light), TXT, CSV, JSON
Support for markdown, attachments, embeds, emoji, and other rich media features
File partitioning, date ranges, message filtering, and other export options
Self-contained exports that don't require internet

Screenshots

Related projects

Chat Analytics — solution for analyzing chat patterns of Discord users, using exports produced by DiscordChatExporter.
DiscordChatExporter-frontend — convenient viewer for exports produced by DiscordChatExporter.