Archiver

Archives backups of Discord channels, stores them on disk and restores them to other Discord channels.

Commands

All commands are bot owner-only.

Commands are detailed in the help command.

archive [channel] [limit]

Archives a channel, and returns the ID of the archived file.

Parameters:

• limit : How many messages to archive. Defaults to 100.
• channel : An ID, channel mention or channel name.

clone [archive ID] [channel]

Restores an archived channel to an existing Discord channel.

Parameters:

• archive ID : The archive to restore. This must be the ID of an existing archive, as returned by archive and listed by list.
• channel : An ID, channel mention or channel name.

Notes:

Due to API limitations, this takes a long time to execute for larger archives.

list

Lists existing archives, including archive ID, guild / channel data, archival date, message count.

Convenience commands

logout

Logs out of the client.

invite

Returns an invite URL with the required permissions.

Hosting

The bot requires a setup.json file to run. It must contain the following fields:

• token : The bot token
• prefixes : A list of prefix strings the bot will recognize commands using.

Details

Logging is done to a log.txt file.

Archive files are stored in the format archives/guilds/[guild ID]/[channel ID]/[archive ID].json.

Archive files contain the following message data:

• attachments: List of attachment references
• author: Object containing id, nick (display name) and avatar (reference to an avatar) fields
• content : Message content
• created_at : Message timestamp
• embeds : List of Objects representing embeds. See the discord.py documentation for more.
• reactions : List of unicode emoji characters representing message reactions.
• type: The message type.

The attachments and avatar (within author) fields will contain references to user avatars and message attachments.

User avatars are stored in the format archives/users/[user-id].[image-format]. image-format is gif for animated avatars and webp otherwise. References to avatars are in the format [user-id].[image-format].

Message attachments are stored in the format archives/guilds/[guild-id]/[channel-id]/data/[attachment-id]_[filename]. filename includes the file format. References to attachments are in the format [attachment-id]_[filename].