SearchExporter

Manual export of your Discord search results, page by page.

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What is this?

BetterDiscord plugin that a adds simple buttons to your Discord search results so you can export messages without all the hassle.

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Features

• Export messages page by page (no annoying rate limits)
• Works in DMs, servers, group chats, whatever

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How to use

1. Install the plugin (make sure you have ZeresPluginLibrary too)
2. Go to Discord’s search tab
3. Use the buttons at the top of the results:
   • Export This Page: saves all messages currently loaded
   • Scroll to Bottom: loads more messages by scrolling down
   • End Export: saves everything you collected into a .txt file

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Download

Just grab the plugin file from the plugin folder in this repo.

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Known issues

• Buttons might take a sec to show up after you search
• You gotta manually scroll to load messages (Discord lazy loads them)
• Exports only what’s currently loaded in the search results

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Sources/Help I got from StackOverflow

1. Detecting if a DOM element exists & polling for it (for your button injection every 2 seconds) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5525071/how-to-wait-until-an-element-exists

2. Creating and styling DOM elements (buttons & wrappers) with JavaScript https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34686567/how-to-inject-html-into-a-webpage-using-javascript

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27290368/how-to-set-css-style-property-in-javascript

3. Handling click events on dynamically created buttons https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6348498/addeventlistener-on-a-dynamically-created-element

4. Scrolling a container programmatically to bottom https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23892547/how-to-scroll-to-the-bottom-of-a-div-with-javascript

5. Querying DOM elements with complex selectors https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11303846/how-to-select-elements-by-class-containing-a-certain-string

6. Collecting unique messages using Set in JavaScript (avoid duplicates) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1985619/how-to-avoid-duplicates-in-javascript-array

7. Creating and downloading a .txt file from JavaScript (Blob, URL.createObjectURL) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3665115/how-to-create-a-file-in-memory-for-user-to-download-with-javascript

8. Parsing timestamps and formatting dates https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3552461/how-to-format-a-javascript-date