itschasa/Discord-Backup

Backup DM Contents [Open for Suggestions]

3xnull opened this issue · 9 comments

3xnull commented

Add option that can only be backed up from chats separately in the list
Or from all friends or just dm that are open
And Group Chat Message Back Too
or you can create another program with some choise for only chat backups and more

itschasa commented

do you mean backing up the actual contents of messages in dms?

3xnull commented

yes backup contents is so good
You can create another tool just for chat
Take backups from dm or all friends and in the next sections backup storage syntax tool for example {html / css / js / and more ...]
Like chat exporter tool but all friends together

itschasa commented

i like the idea, but there are 2 issues that are presented here (and ways to get around them):

  • the amount of messages some people have

    • some people have 1000s of messages with people, this would take very long to scrape
    • one way to fix this is to have a hard limit (500 messages, or whatever, make it customisable)

  • sending the messages in the DM channel on the new account

    • this can lead to locks if theres a lot of DM channels being opened (its similar to mass-dming)
    • also, to dm someone, you need to be their friend, or to be in a mutual server
    • if i was to implement DM contents, i doubt i would make it so you can send the contents
    • maybe a solution would to save the html or txt files on restoring to a folder, where if you need to look at them, you can open the folder and search for the username / id of the user

other than those two problems, i dont see any reason not to add it. just need to get a html (+ css/js) template

itschasa commented

Some more people have been requesting this. If anyone has any good ideas on how to restore the contents of DMs with users, let me know.

It should be easy to find and look through your old DMs, on both mobile and PC. So somehow putting the content of the DMs back on discord would be ideal.

infamouskoala commented

gonna be a real pain in the ass for many reasons

Salty-Coder commented

I feel like restoring would be a challenge, however saving them to a file (such as an html file to look fancy) wouldn't be too tricky.

And with the problem with the quantity of messages, maybe add a (possibly customisable) limit to limit the number of scraped messages to n messages from most recent to older.

Edit: if i get round to it, i'll have a look into how this could be done, as this is a feature I am keen to see.

itschasa commented

however saving them to a file (such as an html file to look fancy) wouldn't be too tricky

i agree, but making that accessible on mobile would be troublesome
i'd prefer to keep this project fully open source and to have no dependancies of web hosting

Salty-Coder commented

i'd prefer to keep this project fully open source and to have no dependancies of web hosting

That's a fair point. It would create various problems if it were to be accessible on mobile.

0ryz commented

That's a pain in the ass. just use chatexporter on all of your dms