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Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. The data was pulled from 3,167 servers and covers posts made between 2015 and 2024, the entire time Discord has been active.

Though the researchers claim they’ve anonymized the data, it’s hard to imagine anyone is comfortable with almost a decade of their Discord messages sitting in a public JSON file online. Separately, a different programmer released a Discord tool called "Searchcord" based on a different data set that shows non-anonymized chat histories.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

If they were on OPEN servers, I doubt they cared that much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I can't find this "public" json

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I was hoping people would do this!!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I was hoping to play around with the dataset over the weekend to toy with some text-embedding techniques, but they’ve pulled the cord on the download links.

Anyone have a copy of the full archive they’re willing to share, or a magnet link?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

404? another source please? I don't trust them on this exact thing.

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