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How to export Discord chat history and turn it into a book

Use a Discord chat exporter to save the messages you care about, then turn them into a book that is easier to revisit than a live server.

Joshua Z

Founder, My Forever Books

Discord can hold a lot more than quick chat. It can be where a friendship grew, where a community found its rhythm, or where a project slowly came together. If you want to export Discord chat history, the point is to save the part you care about in a form you can come back to.

If you already exported the JSON, you can start your Discord book now. If not, the steps below walk you through the export first.

Table of contents

1. Why export Discord chat history?
2. What you need before exporting
3. Step-by-step guide
4. Tips for a better Discord book
5. FAQs

Why export Discord chat history?

Discord often becomes the running archive of a community, friendship, or shared project. That makes it valuable, but also hard to hold onto. Live servers keep moving, channels fill up, and the best conversations are easy to lose in the flow of everything else.

• Discord often holds friendships, community milestones, and collaborative history that never exists anywhere else.
• Exporting a channel lets you preserve an actual slice of conversation instead of relying on endless scrolling and search.
• A printed book is easier to revisit than a live server that keeps changing over time.

What you need before exporting

The most practical route is to use Discrub as your Discord chat exporter. It lets you pick the server and channel you want, then save the messages in a format that works with our uploader.

• A desktop browser where you can install the Discrub extension.
• Access to the Discord server and channel you want to preserve.

Step-by-step guide

Once you have picked the right server and channel, the export itself is pretty simple. The main thing is saving the conversation in a format that still makes sense after it leaves Discord.

1. Install the Discrub extension for Chrome or Firefox.
2. Log into Discord in your browser.
3. Click the Discrub icon in the top right of Discord.
4. Select the server and channel you want to preserve.
5. Open Advanced Filtering if you want to limit the export.
6. Click Search and wait for the message scan to finish.
7. Choose Export Messages.
8. Under Download Media, enable both image options under Discord and Embed if media matters.
9. Export the results as JSON.
10. Upload the finished export to My Forever Books.

Discord export starts in a desktop browser, but after upload both the book editor and cover editor fully work on mobile too.

If the conversation is especially active, that is fine. There are no file limits, and we split long conversations into neat volumes with the message dates on each project so everything stays organized.

Tips for a better Discord book

You do not need to squeeze the conversation into a tiny export just because the channel moves fast. What matters more is choosing the stretch of messages you actually want to keep.

• Export one channel or one clear slice of the conversation when that matches what you want the book to hold.
• Date filters can help if you want the book to focus on one season, trip, or chapter.
• Keep media enabled only when the images actually add context.