Getting both text and attachments from discord

[trocruspi]

Given the whole thing going on with discord, I felt it prudent to back up my personal conversations and such with friends. This tool seemed like it would do the job. But I have pretty much no experience with github. Or coding in general. I just stuck the complicated config file, the gallery dl example, where it goes, and after lots of trial and error, used the command

gallery-dl --filter "author == '(myname)'" "(mydiscordchannel)"

Thing is, that only gets me the images and videos, not the actual text messages themselves. How do I get both images and the texts?

The ideal would be having the entire discord channel backed up and looking like it does normally, but I know that's unlikely to be possible. Instead, just having texts and the attached files in chronological order is good enough.

Though now that I think about it, it might be even better to see every text in a channel in one long file, with it mentioning if an attachment was added at any particular place. Probably easier to do the former though.

[mikf]

It would ultimately be better to use a specialized Discord exporter like https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter, I think.

To do something like this with gallery-dl, use a metadata postprocessor like the following. Adjust formatting and other options as needed.

{
    "extractor": {
        "discord": {
            "postprocessors": {
                "name": "metadata@post",
                "open": "a",
                "filename": "posts.txt",
                "format": [
                    "# {channel_id}/{message_id} by {author}",
                    "{message}\n"
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

[trocruspi]

That other exporter doesn't really seem to be working. Or at least I dunno how to use it.

Anyway, I messed around a bit, and formatted the config to:
"postprocessors": {
"name": "metadata@post",
"open": "a",
"filename": "posts.txt",
"format": [
"Server/ {server} - Channel/ {channel} # {channel_id} - Message # {message_id}",
"Message on {date} by {author}",
"Message Content - {message}",
"Attached Files: {files}\n"
]
},

And that's pretty good. Really, there's only three things I'd like.

1. The ability to see if a message is a reply to someone else's message, and if so, what that first message was and by whom.
2. Seeing the attached files in the message in the same naming format that they've been downloaded in.
3. Maybe getting the post file to link to the local downloaded files if they're present. Though this last one is a bit of a stretch. I figure that would need an html file or something that's coded.

[mikf]

The ability to see if a message is a reply to someone else's message, and if so, what that first message was and by whom.

There is no metadata for this, or at least it is not getting extracted.

Seeing the attached files in the message in the same naming format that they've been downloaded in.

This could probably be done with a second metadata postprocessor with "event": "file" that appends to the same file and enabled metadata-path.