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Its not difficult to archive yourself, if you really care[0] I use a dedicated alt account to archive tons of various servers I'm in, and auto-download all att
by DaSHacka 1y ago
Its not difficult to archive yourself, if you really care[0]
I use a dedicated alt account to archive tons of various servers I'm in, and auto-download all attachments. It's nice having regex search capabilities on my local copy of the data too.
[0] https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
- judge2020 1y agoUsing a user account to do this is still considered risky since any automated API usage by a non-bot user is against TOS, and they have heuristics (maybe now ML-based heuristics) for banning accounts for 'things that "don't look like what our official client does"'[0]. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25215415 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25215415
- DaSHacka 1y agoThis is why I use a dedicated account to scrape servers, since I unfortunately need my main to interact with(/run) communities unavailable elsewhere. FWIW, I haven't exactly been careful with it (oftentimes scraping 2 servers at once, and downloading all attachments) and have never had an account get banned. The only time I got 'banned' in any capacity was when I hammered the internal JSON API to get information about server's invite links, and even then it was only an automated IP ban from Cloudflare for a couple days. Although, it was an unauthenticated API.