Discord chat exporter

This javascript library is a wrapper for Tyrrz/DiscordChatExporter tool.
For more information read the wiki section Using CLI of the tool.

Installation

Using npm

npm install discord-chat-exporter

Using yarn

yarn add discord-chat-exporter

Environment variables

Variable name	Description	Required	Default value
DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN	Your private discord bot token	✓
DOTNET_BIN	Path to the dotnet binary. Default binary provided by dotnet-3.1 dependency	✕	dotnet
DISCORD_CHAT_EXPORTER_CLI_BIN	Path to discord chat exporter dll binary	✕	node_modules/discord-chat-exporter/cli/DiscordChatExporter.Cli.dll
DISCORD_CHAT_EXPORTER_OUTPUT_DIR	Directory where export process will output their files	✕	output
DISCORD_CHAT_EXPORTER_FORMAT	Directory where export process will output their files	✕	HtmlDark

Usage

This library use a notion of Executor. An executor is there to ease the interaction with the discord chat exporter binary.

Each executor map a specific command. You can retrieve the command list on the wiki of original tool.

Executor

For each executor except the RawExecutor we inject automatically some option like your Discord bot token, format and ouput.

RawExecutor

This executor give you the possibility to build the command yourself.

const executor = new RawExecutor('export -c CHANNEL_ID -t BOT_TOKEN -b')

Read the original wiki to know how to compose your command.

You need to inject yourself each option in the command.

ExportExecutor

Wrapper for export command.

const executor = new ExportExecutor({channel: 'CHANNEL_ID'})

For more details about available options see ExportOptions.