Discord Channel Backup Bot

Source

Backup

• Backup Supports
• Why
• How it's works
• Installation
• Bot Command
• Disadvantage

Backup Supports

✅ Embeds
✅ Attachments
✅ Threads
❌ Forum (not implement yet)

Why

Althought already has DiscordChatExporter, but the problem of DiscordChatExporter is that you have to save all messages assets in your own disk or cloud drive, which need a lot of disk sapce. If you use DiscordChatExporter but not chose download all messages assets, and then you delete the source channel, all of these assets cdn link will be lost.

So if we wanna keep all assets and aslo no need own disk sapce, the way is resend all messages history into another channel to backup on the discord server. and this is what this bot doing.

How it's works

Step.1

Bot will fetch target channel all history messages, and save all messages id array json temp files to local temp folder

Step.2

Recursive all temp files, find each message by id, and then deal it message by each.

if message have attachments:

1. save all attachments temp files to local temp folder
2. send messages content with attachments
3. delete attachments temp

if message not have attachments:

1. send messages content

temp file will delete after each file messages done.

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Installation

1. Download or clone this repo

   • Download this repo
   • Clone this repo

https://github.com/Proladon/discord-channel-backup-bot.git

2. Setting up bot

   • rename .env.example file to .env
   • give required values in .env file
   • [optional] you can adjustify backup interval times by config.js

3. Start the bot

   • First install the project dependencies
   • excute terminal command yarn or npm install
   • Start the Bot
   • excute terminal command yarn bot or npm run bot

Bot Command

Slash Command: backup <target> <dst>

• target: target channel, which channel you wanna backup
• dst: dst channel ID, which channel you wanna backup to (can cross server, but also required bot had in server there)

Disadvantage

backup proccess will take very very ~ long times, cause of discord api rate limit, so we need to wait few seconds with deal with each message in purporse.