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Sounds like it's time to write a Discord crawler...

• slightwinder 5y ago
  That won't work. Discord is pretty eager in protecting their data. They even kill legit bot-abilities to prevent people from harming their space. But to be fair, discord-space is also very toxic and borderline in some content, with phising and other attacks are being quite common. So it's justified that they protect their customers. I guess if a big name like Google would ask them and ensures that privacy is preserved, they might cooperate to some degree.
  • benatkin 5y ago
    Search engines are a big deal, so much so that I could see crawling with a browser extension or browser automation. However, Discord also discourages use of the web app. How about if when the app's data is fully locked down, people start recording their screens and OCRing them? Incentivize it somehow. That way at least content that the participating users viewed would be indexed. Then you get back to trying to block people from recording their own screen with software, and after that hardware[1]. Never ending cat and mouse game. 1: https://pallycon.com/blog/choose-your-weapon-to-fight-screen-recording-piracy/ https://pallycon.com/blog/choose-your-weapon-to-fight-screen... (see "Screen recording using camera")
    • slightwinder 5y ago
      Of course, will it be always possible to catch data some way. But it's a difference whether you actively work against the company and must invest money and time into it, or not. And outside the technical level, discord also has the legal way. They can try to shut down your service, remove your code from public space and make you sink more time and money in an uphill-battle. This is the same battle people are fighting against all walled gardens. And so far the gardens usually win. So someone taking on that fight, should be aware of this.