How to skip over redundant data

[Zsargul]

I'm using the command below to export a very large server of mine, with dozens of channels. Naturally this takes a very long time, and with a poor internet connection, it is likely I'd need to leave my computer on and running for well over a day or two to fully export everything. I don't want to leave my computer running for such an extended period of time so I was wondering if there's a way of using the command over multiple "sessions", where each sequential usage skips over the already exported data which was downloaded already. Currently when using the command, every time I run it anew, data is exported anew regardless of if it exists already or not.

./DiscordChatExporter.Cli exportguild --token <token> -g <guild ID> --media --reuse-media true --markdown false --format Json --include-threads none --parallel 15 --output <directory>

Any help would be appreciated

[Tyrrrz]

No, there's no such functionality. Your best solution in this case is to get the list of channels (the channels command) and then export each of them individually. You can also use date ranges to split exports by timestamps, allowing you to export each chunk of the messages separately as well.

[CharithBhat]

Okay, but with the export channel method, Will I be able to include all threads? Or is this an exportguild only feature?

[Tyrrrz]

You can include threads in the output of the channels command and then pass their IDs as with normal channels

[CharithBhat]

Each channel has over 1k threads.
I'm trying to download specific channels onto a folder, along with all threads from that channel only. Looks like there is no relationship b/w a thread and its parent channel. Hence I asked.

[Tyrrrz]

Yeah there is no way to do that now

[Coldblackice]

How difficult would it be to implement something like this (and would it be open to PRs)?

[suitangi]

What is the filtering syntax for date-time? I know there is before: month date and after: month date. Is there a time filter?

[96-LB]

Use the --after and --before flags instead of the filter. You can pass in a snowflake (for example, a discord message ID) like --after 1271358184371781724 to only export messages after a particular time.

[Tyrrrz]

You can also pass a date/time stamp in any standard format