chat-exporter 1.7

A simple Discord chat exporter for Python Discord bots.

DiscordChatExporterPy is a Python plugin for your discord.py bot, allowing you to export a discord channels history within a guild.

Installing

To install the library to your bot, run the command:

pip install chat-exporter

To install the repository, run the command:

git clone https://github.com/mahtoid/DiscordChatExporterPy

Usage

Basic Usage

import discord
import chat_exporter
from discord.ext import commands

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.members = True

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)


@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print("Live: " + bot.user.name)
    chat_exporter.init_exporter(bot)


@bot.command()
async def save(ctx):
    await chat_exporter.quick_export(ctx)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    bot.run("BOT_TOKEN_HERE")

Optional: If you want the transcript to display Members (Role) Colours then enable the Members Intent.

Customisable Usage

import io

...

@bot.command()
async def save(ctx, limit: int, tz_info):
    transcript = await chat_exporter.export(ctx.channel, limit, tz_info)

    if transcript is None:
        return

     transcript_file = discord.File(io.BytesIO(transcript.encode()),
                                    filename=f"transcript-{ctx.channel.name}.html")

    await ctx.send(file=transcript_file)

Optional: limit and tz_info are both optional, but can be used to limit the amount of messages transcribed or set a ‘local’ (pytz) timezone for the bot to transcribe message times to.

Raw Usage

import io

...

@bot.command()
async def purge(ctx, tz_info):
    deleted_messages = await ctx.channel.purge()

    transcript = await chat_exporter.raw_export(ctx.channel, deleted_messages, tz_info)

    if transcript is None:
        return

     transcript_file = discord.File(io.BytesIO(transcript.encode()),
                                    filename=f"transcript-{ctx.channel.name}.html")

    await ctx.send(file=transcript_file)

Optional: tz_info is optional, but can be used to set a ‘local’ (pytz) timezone for the bot to transcribe message times to.

Screenshots

Links

• Wiki

• Discord Server

Attributions

This project borrows CSS and HTML code from Tyrrrz’s C# DiscordChatExporter repository.