DiscordChatDownloader

A python tool for downloading the entirety of a chat log you have access to.

UNIX Setup

Requires Python 3.5+.

Install the discord.py library:

$ python3 -m pip install -U discord.py

Then clone the directory and make file executable:

$ git clone https://github.com/dhdavvie/DiscordChatDownloader.git
$ cd DiscordChatDownloader
$ chmod +x DiscordChatDownloader.py

Usage:

$ ./DiscordChatDownloader.py {bot_token} {channel_id} {output_file}
or
$ python3 DiscordChatDownloader.py {bot_token} {channel_id} {output_file}

This is intended to be used with a Bot Token! Here are instructions on getting a Bot Token. You can get the channel_id by following the steps here. The output_file is simply the name of the file you wish to output the chat log to (ie chatlog.txt)