View source for Discord

{{Infobox project
| title = Discord
| image = 2018-11-11_discordapp_com.png
| URL = https://discord.com/
| description = Free Voice and Text Chat for Gamers
| project_status = {{online}}
| archiving_status = {{specialcase}}
| irc = discard
}}
'''Discord''' is basically modern day IRC, except it's centralized.  It was introduced on 2015-05-13 by the today-eponymous company, Discord Inc.  The Discord server and clients are proprietary, the use of Discord is free with paid bonuses.

Discord enables users to create ''servers'' (called ''guilds'' internally), which further divide into text and voice channels.  Those may have different access permissions depending on roles given to users on the server.  To note, '''unlike IRC,''' Discord keeps unlimited logs of text channels.  Anybody who joins a Discord server has access to full server history (except for channels with the seldom used "Read Message History" denial).  Access to a Discord server is granted through invites in the forms of an URL, which may be unlimited until disabled or automatically expire.

Discord's status is essentially ''deep web'', as Discord servers are unable to be indexed by conventional search engines and archival tools, even if invites are posted publicly.  However, as it keeps history and has a well documented API, it proves possible for users, particularly admins, to create comprehensive archives of servers they have access to.

'''Should Discord server archives be posted publicly?'''  This is a question worth pondering on.  On IRC the implicit agreement is that you don't publish logs, but the privacy story is different on Discord, where everybody who joins gains access to years of logs.  Given that closed services like Discord and [[Telegram]] are on the road to displace traditional services like message boards, there is culture worth saving.  Archival and noindex publication could be appropriate.  Note that Discord explicitly forbids collecting and disclosing end user data in their [https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/legal Developer Terms of Service] (point 2.4 End User Data).  See also our attitude to [[Robots.txt]].  Make your call.

== Self-archival ==
Software for archiving Discord servers include:
=== Active ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!Software
!<abbr title="In addition to basic messages, downloads attachments, avatars, and emoji">Full
!<abbr title="No administrator permissions: Can archive servers you do not administrate">No admin perms</abbr>
!Incremental
!GUI Available
!Archive format
!<abbr title="The archive can be read in a convenient manner, having the option to not tread a machine file format.">Frontend for humans</abbr>
!Platform
!Source code licence 
|-
|'''[https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter DiscordChatExporter]''' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{maybe|[https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter/issues/564 Manual]}} || {{yes}} || .txt, .html, .csv, .json || {{yes|Yes (HTML/txt output, also available [https://github.com/slatinsky/DiscordChatExporter-frontend frontend for JSON output])}} || C# || GPLv3
|- 
|'''[https://dht.chylex.com/ Discord History Tracker]''' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || SQL database || {{yes}} || C# || MIT
|-
|'''[https://github.com/Sanqui/discard2 discard2]''' || {{yes|Downloads whatever the browser does; the links are also saved so you can extract the URLs if need be}} || {{yes}} || ? || {{no}} || Mitmdump, Wireshark || ? || TypeScript with Headless Chrome || MIT
|-
|'''[https://wiki.xenon.bot/ Xenon]'''<br><small>A Discord bot intended for server admins to back up servers</small> || ? || {{no}} || ? || ? || ? || ? || Web Service || ?
|-
|'''[https://github.com/Androz2091/discord-backup Discord Backup]''' || ? || {{yes}} || ? || {{no}} || ? || ? || NodeJS || MIT
|-
|'''[https://github.com/tsudoko/pullcord pullcord]'''<br><small>Created by ArchiveTeam user [[User:moufu|moufu]].</small> || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || .tsv || {{no}} || Go || Unlicense
|-
|'''[https://github.com/mahtoid/DiscordChatExporterPy DiscordChatExporterPy]'''<br><small>Python plugin for your discord.py bot, allowing you to export a discord channels history within a guild.</small> || ? || {{yes}} || ?  || ? || .html || {{yes}} || Python || GPLv3
|-
|'''[https://github.com/roachbones/Discordless Discordless]'''<br><small>mitmproxy addon to record and parse Discord traffic</small> || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{no}} || .html, .json || {{yes}} || Python || GPLv3
|}

A URL extractor for some of these archival tools is available [https://github.com/TheTechRobo/discord-urls-extractor here].

Please note that ''Discord's Developer Policy [https://discord.com/developers/docs/policies-and-agreements/developer-policy#handle-data-with-care forbids you from scraping] or even just disclosing user data without their consent. Additionally, using "self-bots" (using a user token in automated scripts) is also prohibited, and only the server administrator can add a bot user to the server. Using these tools with your account may get your account banned.  '''Use at your own risk!'''''

=== "Make your Discord guild public and searchable" services ===
* [https://www.answeroverflow.com Answer Overflow] is an open source project to bring discord channels to your favorite search engine by inviting their bot.

=== Abandoned ===
* [https://github.com/guineawheek/zucc Zucc] is a Discord bot that dumps messages and other data from a guild/server
* [https://github.com/Sanqui/discard discard] was a high-fidelity Discord bot client that was compatible with both user and bot tokens.
* [https://search-cord.com/ Search-Cord] was a search engine that could index channels by inviting their bot.

== Discord server aggregators ==

=== Dictionaries ===

* [https://disboard.org/ https://disboard.org/] ({{job|cul77udia7xxrtpvlwxso1we9}} on 2019-05-01)
* [https://discordbots.org/ https://discordbots.org/] ({{job|10omwqmi1h5f1efu5mcqkpwb6}} on 2019-05-01)
* [https://discord.me/ https://discord.me/]
* [https://blox.link/communities https://blox.link/communities]

=== Stat bots ===

* [https://statbot.net/ Statbot]

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