Discord Channel Scraper
This simple script logs in the user and scrapes up to --limit messages from a specified channel. There are a variety of features included to allow for different usecases.
Requires
- Rapptz's discord python API
- Available through pip:
See official documentation for further installation instructionspip3 install -U discord.py
Usage
$ python3.5 scrape-logs.py --help
usage: scrape-logs.py [-h] [--username USERNAME] [--flag FLAG] [--quiet] [--server SERVER] [--channel CHANNEL] [--limit LIMIT] [--output OUTPUT] [--logging {10,20,30,40,50}]
Scrapes the logs from a Discord channel.
optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit --username USERNAME, -u USERNAME Username to login under. If not specified, username will be prompted for. --flag FLAG, -f FLAG An alternative to specifing the server and channel, specify a piece of regex which when matched against a message sent by the target user, will trigger scraping of the channel the message was posted in. Useful for private messages and private chats. Default value is "!yank", activates by default if no server is specified. --quiet, -q Supress messages in Discord --server SERVER, --guild SERVER, -s SERVER Discord server name to scrape from (user must be a member of the server and have history privileges). This field is case sensitive. If channel is not specified the entire server will be scraped. --channel CHANNEL, -c CHANNEL Discord channel name to scrape from (user must have history privileges for the particular channel). This field is case sensitive. --limit LIMIT, -l LIMIT Number of messages to save. Default is 1000000 --output OUTPUT, -o OUTPUT Outputs all logs into a single file. If not specified, logs are saved under the format: -.txt. --logging {10,20,30,40,50} Change the logging level. Defaults to 20, info.
## Future plans
- [ ]: Add 2FA support