Discordchatexporter: [CLI] Exclude Channels from Guild Export

[Jakhaxz]

Could you add a option to the CLI when using exportguild, that allows you to list channels not to export? Thanks

[Yudi]

The command would be huge with a large amount of channels, but it sure is an interesting feature.

DiscordChatExporter.Cli.exe exportguild -t asdadsdsdadasdadadadasdsadadsadasdasdadadasdsadasdadasdsadadadasdads -g 592906419838124078 --exclude "535554350261469188, 664649014347825167, 623708173651673183, 535652743688355879, 694348184985796659"

If you won't be doing this very often and depending on the amount of channels to exclude, maybe the GUI is a better alternative.
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While not as practical as a native DCE feature would be, you can also achieve this with the channels option and a simple script.
Basically, save the channels output to a file, remove the lines that contains the undesired channels, remove the | Channel name, repeat exportfor every line in the file.

I don't have one for Windows right now, I might do it later if I have some spare time. But I had made this one for macOS and it probably works on Linux:

#!/bin/bash
# \/ This will cd to the script's directory. You can replace ""${0%/*}" || exit" with DCE's directory if you'd like.
cd "${0%/*}" || exit

TOKEN=yourtokenhere
TOKENTYPE=bot/user
SERVERID=serveridhere
FORMAT=htmldark/htmllight/plaintext/csv/json
# /\ Choose only ONE format
# Don't forget to replace the "EXCLUDE" options below!

# \/ This checks if you've typed "bot" in the TOKENTYPE option
if [[ "$TOKENTYPE" == "bot" ]]; then
ISBOTYES=-b
fi

# \/ This will save the channels output to a file
dotnet DiscordChatExporter.Cli.dll channels -t ${TOKEN//\"} $ISBOTYES -g $SERVERID > channels.tmp

# \/ Replace "EXCLUDE1" with a channel name or ID you'd like to remove from the file, don't touch the "mv". 
awk '!/EXCLUDE1/' channels.tmp > awkchannels.tmp && mv awkchannels.tmp channels.tmp

# To exclude more than one channel, add more awks. Example to exclude 2 more channels. Remove the #s for them to run.
# awk '!/EXCLUDE2/' channels.tmp > awkchannels.tmp && mv awkchannels.tmp channels.tmp
# awk '!/EXCLUDE3/' channels.tmp > awkchannels.tmp && mv awkchannels.tmp channels.tmp

# \/ This command removes the '| Channel name`
cut -d' ' -f1 channels.tmp > cutchannels.tmp && mv cutchannels.tmp channels.tmp

# \/ This gets the content from a line and sets it to the $Channel variable and keeps repeating it  with the export command until the file ends
while read -r Channel
do
    if ! dotnet DiscordChatExporter.Cli.dll export -t ${TOKEN//\"} $ISBOTYES -c $Channel -f $FORMAT; then
      echo "Something went wrong while trying to export a server channel."
      exit
    fi
done <cutchannels.tmp

# \/ This removes the remaining .tmp file
if ! rm -Rf "channels.tmp"; then
echo "Unable to delete channels.tmp."
fi
exit

[Yudi]

Windows script!
You might need to enable unsigned scripts execution before running the .ps1 file.
Create a filename.ps1 file in powershell_ise.exe (👈 recommended) or Notepad with the following content:

# \/ Replace this with DCE's directory.
cd C:\path\to\dcecli\folder

$TOKEN = "yourtokenhere"
$TOKENTYPE = "bot/user"
$SERVERID = "serveridhere"
$FORMAT = "htmldark/htmllight/plaintext/csv/json"
# /\ Choose only ONE format
# Don't forget to replace the "EXCLUDE" options below!

# \/ This checks if you've typed "bot" in the TOKENTYPE option
If($TOKENTYPE -match "bot"){$ISBOTYES = "-b"}
Else{$ISBOTYES = ""}

# \/ This will save the channels output to a file
.\DiscordChatExporter.Cli.exe channels -t $TOKEN $ISBOTYES -g $SERVERID | Out-File -filepath channels.tmp

<# \/ Replace "EXCLUDE1/2/3" with a channel name or ID you'd like to remove from the file.
If you want to exclude more channels, add more "Select-String -Pattern 'EXCLUDE' -NotMatch |" before the ) in the end of the command.
Please note that the last "Select-String -Pattern 'EXCLUDE' -NotMatch" must NOT have a | in its end #>
Set-Content -Path "channels.tmp" -Value (get-content -Path "channels.tmp" | Select-String -Pattern 'EXCLUDE1' -NotMatch | Select-String -Pattern 'EXCLUDE2' -NotMatch | Select-String -Pattern 'EXCLUDE3' -NotMatch)

# \/ This gets the first word from a line and sets it to the $Channel variable and keeps repeating it with the export command until the file ends
Get-Content 'channels.tmp' | ForEach-Object -Process {
    Set-Variable "Channel" ($_ -split ' ')[0]
    .\DiscordChatExporter.Cli.exe export -t $TOKEN $ISBOTYES -c $Channel -f $FORMAT
}
# \/ This removes the remaining .tmp file
rm channels.tmp -fo
exit 

Both scripts are very basic and can be improved, but they still work regardless.

[Jakhaxz]

Thanks for this, I've tested and works as intended.