Discord

Discord
Free Voice and Text Chat for Gamers
URL	https://discord.com/
Status	Online!
Archiving status	Special case
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#discard (on hackint)

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 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

Software	Full	No admin perms	Incremental	GUI Available	Archive format	Frontend for humans	Platform	Source code licence
DiscordChatExporter	Yes	Yes	Manual	Yes	.txt, .html, .csv, .json	Yes (HTML/txt output, also available frontend for JSON output)	C#	GPLv3
Discord History Tracker	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	SQL database	Yes	C#	MIT
discard2	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
Xenon A Discord bot intended for server admins to back up servers	?	No	?	?	?	?	Web Service	?
Discord Backup	?	Yes	?	No	?	?	NodeJS	MIT
pullcord Created by ArchiveTeam user moufu.	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	.tsv	No	Go	Unlicense
DiscordChatExporterPy Python plugin for your discord.py bot, allowing you to export a discord channels history within a guild.	?	Yes	?	?	.html	Yes	Python	GPLv3
Discordless mitmproxy addon to record and parse Discord traffic	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	.html, .json	Yes	Python	GPLv3

A URL extractor for some of these archival tools is available here.

Please note that Discord's Developer Policy 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

• Answer Overflow is an open source project to bring discord channels to your favorite search engine by inviting their bot.

Abandoned

• Zucc is a Discord bot that dumps messages and other data from a guild/server
• discard was a high-fidelity Discord bot client that was compatible with both user and bot tokens.
• Search-Cord was a search engine that could index channels by inviting their bot.

Discord server aggregators

Dictionaries

• https://disboard.org/ (job:cul77udia7xxrtpvlwxso1we9 on 2019-05-01)
• https://discordbots.org/ (job:10omwqmi1h5f1efu5mcqkpwb6 on 2019-05-01)
• https://discord.me/
• https://blox.link/communities

Stat bots

• Statbot