# discord-chat-exporter-2026-02

An export from `DiscordChatExporter`, a comprehensive DiscordChatExporter

## Export methodology

This uses the version of `DiscordChatExporter` that existed at the top of the releases tab on GitHub around `2026 February`. **TODO: figure out version**

This export used a command something like the following to try to get _everything_ `dotnet DiscordChatExporter.Cli.dll export -t xxx -o ~/DiscordChatExporter -f json --media --reuse-media --include-threads -c xxx`

* It uses `export` command and `-c` but it's the same for `exportguild` and `-g`
* `-f json` so only the json export
* `--media` download all media
* `--reuse-media` not quite sure what this does because it puts it in a folder per channel...
* `--include-threads` to get any threads

## Manual edits
* Lots of image replacing + placeholders
* Had to rename the folders

## Notes
The export format has files and folders with similar, information-dense names. I tried to preserve that as that's the only way to correlate between the folder and the file name

* No exif on any media files
* There's embeds, thumbnails in the example chat messages but I have no other specimen