How to Scrape Discord: Servers, Messages, and User Data

Discord has become a major hub for communities. This guide covers legitimate approaches to collecting Discord data using bots and the official API. Important: Use the Official API Discord explicitly prohibits scraping via browser automation or self-bots. The correct approach is to use Discord's Bot API or OAuth2 . This guide focuses entirely on legitimate methods. Setting Up a Discord Bot Create a bot at discord.com/developers : Create a new application Go to "Bot" tab and create a bot Enable necessary intents (Message Content, Server Members) Copy the bot token pip install discord.py aiohttp Building a Data Collection Bot import discord from discord.ext import commands import json from datetime import datetime class DataCollectorBot ( commands . Bot ): def __init__ ( self ): intents = discord . Intents . default () intents . message_content = True intents . members = True super (). __init__ ( command_prefix = " ! " , intents = intents ) async def on_ready ( self ): print ( f " Bot con