A browser add-on to collect Discord messages for text mining and discourse analysis.
⚠️ Use of this tool is subject to basic ethics and local data protection and intellectual property legislation.

Cite this program

If you use this extension for your research, please reference it as follows:

Moncomble, F. (2025). DiscordScraper (Version 0.1) [JavaScript]. Arras, France: Université d’Artois. Available at: https://fmoncomble.github.io/DiscordScraper/

Download and install

Firefox

Chromium-based browsers

While the add-on is in beta testing:

• Download the repository as a zip file
• Unzip into a folder on your computer
• Open chrome://extensions (or similar depending on your browser)
• Toggle Developer mode
• Click Load unpacked extension
• Select the unzipped folder

Remember to pin the add-on to the toolbar

Instructions for use

Authentication

• On first use, click the Get token button. This will take you to the Discord web app in a new tab, where you will need to be logged in.
• On your Discord home page, right-click your avatar in the bottom-left corner, then click Copy user token.
• If successful, this will close the Discord tab and bring you back to Discord Scraper to paste your token in the appropriate field.

Collecting messages

• Once your token has been pasted, you should see a dropdown menu of the servers where you are a member, and a second dropdown of the selected server’s channels.
• Choose a server and a channel, then click Start to start collecting messages. You can click Stop at any time to interrupt the process.
  • ⚠️ All of a given server’s channels are displayed in the channels dropdown, including some to which you may not have access. Make sure to choose a channel you are a member of.
• Once done, click Download to display a dialog to select which metadata you want to include in the resulting file. By default, content, timestamp and username are checked.
• Choose a file format
  • (XML/XTZ creates an XML file specially formatted for import into TXM. On import, make sure to click the “Textual planes” item and type ref in the “Out of text to edit” section.)
• Click Download to retrieve the file.