discord-to-postgresql 0.1.1

Imports Discord messages archive to PostgreSQL database

Discord to PostgreSQL

Imports Discord messages archive to PostgreSQL database.

Tested in Python 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9 on Linux and Windows.

Installation

pip3 install discord-to-postgresql

Usage

Run with postgresql credentials as arguments

discord_to_postgresql path/to/package.zip replace myusername mypassword 0.0.0.0 5432 postgres

Run with textfile containing PostgreSQL connection URL specified as argument

discord_to_postgresql path/to/package.zip replace -t path/to/conn_url.txt

Sample contents of textfile

postgresql://myusername:mypassword@0.0.0.0:5432/postgres

PostgreSQL output tables

discord_user

Column	Type
id	bigint
username	character varying
discriminator	character varying

discord_server

Column	Type
id	bigint
name	character varying

discord_channel

type is the "type" of the discord channel. Known possible values of type are:

• 0 = normal server channel
• 1 = direct message (between 2 people only)
• 3 = group chat (may be more than 2 people)
• 5 = announcement channel
• 11 = thread

Column	Type
id	bigint
type	integer
name	character varying
server_id	bigint

discord_recipient

A private chat will have 2 "recipients" (members), or 1-8 for group chats.

Column	Type
channel_id	bigint
user_id	bigint

discord_message

Column	Type
id	bigint
timestamp	timestamp without time zone
contents	text
attachments	character varying
channel_id	bigint
user_id	bigint

Command-line arguments

• --package: package.zip file path.
• --if_exists: How to behave if the tables already exist. This argument will be directly passed to the DataFrame.to_sql() function. Possible values:
  • fail: Raise a ValueError.
  • replace: Drop the table before inserting new values.
  • append: Insert new values to the existing table.
• --username: PostgreSQL server username. Optional if text_file_with_url already specified.
• --password: PostgreSQL server password. Optional if text_file_with_url already specified.
• --host: PostgreSQL server host URL (e.g. localhost or xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). Optional if text_file_with_url already specified.
• --port: PostgreSQL server port. Optional if text_file_with_url already specified.
• --db_name: PostgreSQL server database name. Optional if text_file_with_url already specified.
• --text_file_with_url: Text file containing PostgreSQL DB connection URL. Optional if username, password, host, port, db_name are all specified. URL is of the format: postgresql://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@<HOST>:<PORT>/<DB_NAME>

Addendum: Easiest way to start up a test PostgreSQL server

Install Docker: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

Then type this command to install a Docker PostgreSQL image and run as a container:

docker run -p 5432:5432 --name test-postgres -e POSTGRES_USER=myusername -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mypassword -e POSTGRES_DB=postgres -d postgres

This will run a postgresql server accessible on localhost:5432 with username myusername and password mypassword, and create a databased named postgres.

To stop the container:

docker stop test-postgres

To restart the container:

docker start test-postgres

To delete the container (and erase all db data):

docker rm test-postgres

after which it is completely fine to run the above-mentioned docker run command again.

Heroku Postgres (free cloud server) is another option but has a maximum row number limit.

TODO

• Test for other versions of Python
• Test for Windows
• Add support for primary keys (no duplicate rows if append)