Discordchatexporter: Export message history from a specific discord user

[koblihh]

I was wondering if it would be possible to add a new search feature from: user - which would allow us to filter/limit messages and essentially only export message history from a specific user on a discord server.

[SharpOB]

Would be nice if this could be extended to save all messages from a single user across all servers.

[kingphantom]

This is a feature I hope to see as well. An idea would be to separate the user by [DATE] [SERVER, CHANNEL]

Date could be used to determine the server and channel order for the user.

[panhartstuff]

I would love to have this feature too.
Any hope for revival?

[Tyrrrz]

It hasn't died :)

[panhartstuff]

Oh nice.
Are there any complications or difficulty with this kind of feature?

[Tyrrrz]

I want to make this more generic by being able to specify a query that allows to filter messages.
Currently this is lower in priority than some other things but I'll get to it eventually.

[scattrbrain1994]

I appreciate your work on this app!

Just want to say that I also wish it were possible to filter chat history similar to how it's done via discord's search bar.

I'm in a chatroom of music makers who often share their original music either as a discord attachment or as a link to any of several music hosting sites. When I can I like to download all of their music and sort it by artist. This has been a manual process but this program has the potential to make it almost automatic. For that potential to be realized I would need the ability to filter out everything except audio file attachments and links to music hosting sites (i.e. soundcloud.com/clyp.it/spotify/bandcamp/youtube etc), along with the ability to filter by user. As-is, I'm forced to download a whole bunch of junk (images, videos, etc), even though I just want audio files, and that takes a long time, much longer than it would take if the program just downloaded audio files. Furthermore, after deleting the junk, I have to sort the remaining files by user. I wouldn't need to do this if there was a way to download audio files from a specified user only.

[Tyrrrz]

@scattrbrain1994 this is pretty much how I want it myself, i.e. using Discord's search query syntax. However, while search is used mostly to find specific messages, it will have to be extended for this use case.

I'm going to close this issue in favor of #160 which pretty much encompasses this and other use cases as well.