discrub-core

Core library powering Discrub — a Discord data management tool for exporting, purging, and analyzing your Discord messages.

Handles all Discord API communication, message processing, export data preparation, HTML formatting, reaction enrichment, and user data enrichment.

Installation

npm install discrub-core

Architecture

discrub-core/
  lib/
    services/       Discord API, GitHub gist, export data
    messages/       Message retrieval pipeline (fetch, enrich, modify)
    types/          TypeScript type definitions (Discord + Discrub)
    enum/           Enums (channel types, settings, export formats)
    utils/          Utility functions (formatting, HTML, settings)
    filtering/      Message search filter logic
    guards/         Type guard functions
    regex/          Discord markdown parsing regexes
    constants/      Discord search constants

Modules

Services

discord-service

Discord API v10 wrapper with rate limiting, retry logic, and configurable delays.

import { DiscordService } from 'discrub-core/discord-service';

const discord = new DiscordService(settings);
const messages = await discord.fetchMessages(token, channelId);
const guilds = await discord.fetchGuilds(token);

Handles: messages, guilds, channels, DMs, reactions, threads, search, user profiles, guild members.

github-service

Fetches announcement and donation data from GitHub Gists.

import { fetchDonationData, fetchAnnouncementData } from 'discrub-core/github-service';

const donations = await fetchDonationData();
const announcement = await fetchAnnouncementData();

export-data-service

Paginates messages into export pages with thread separation support.

import { prepareExportData } from 'discrub-core/export-data-service';

const result = prepareExportData(messages, config);
// result.pages — paginated message arrays
// result.threadExports — separated thread content

Message Pipeline (messages)

The core retrieval and enrichment pipeline, composed of specialized services:

MessageRetrievalService (orchestrator)
  ├─ MessageFetchService      — Search API pagination, thread discovery
  ├─ ReactionEnrichmentService — Fetch reaction user data per emoji
  └─ UserDataEnrichmentService — Fetch display names, nicknames, avatars

All services extend BaseServiceConfig:

interface BaseServiceConfig {
  apiClient: IDiscordAPIClient;
  token: string;
  onProgress?: ProgressCallback;
  onStatus?: StatusCallback;
  shouldStop?: ShouldStopCallback;
}

Modification Services

• MessageModificationService — Edit and delete messages
• ReactionModificationService — Remove reactions
• PurgeService — Bulk message deletion and reaction removal with user targeting

Types

types/discord-types

Full Discord API type definitions: Message, Channel, Guild, User, Reaction, Embed, Attachment, etc.

import type { Message, Channel, Guild, User } from 'discrub-core/types/discord-types';

types/discrub-types

Discrub-specific types for export, settings, and enrichment:

import type {
  Donation,
  ExportReaction,
  ExportReactionMap,
  ExportUserMap,
  SearchCriteria,
  AppSettings,
} from 'discrub-core/types/discrub-types';

Enums

import { ChannelType, MessageType, ReactionType } from 'discrub-core/discord-enum';
import { DiscrubSetting, ExportType } from 'discrub-core/discrub-enum';
import { SortDirection } from 'discrub-core/common-enum';

Key enums:

• ChannelType — GUILD_TEXT, DM, GUILD_VOICE, GUILD_FORUM, etc.
• DiscrubSetting — All persisted settings keys (delays, export prefs, purge config)
• ExportType — HTML, CSV, JSON, MEDIA

Utils

html-formatting-utils

Converts Discord markdown to HTML: bold, italic, code blocks, mentions, headings, links, spoilers, emojis.

import { formatContentAsHtml } from 'discrub-core/html-formatting-utils';

const html = formatContentAsHtml(message.content, formattingContext);

discrub-utils

General utilities: sorting, thread management, user formatting, permission checks, date helpers.

settings-utils

Typed accessors for string-based settings:

import { SettingsHelper } from 'discrub-core/utils/settings-utils';

const isEnabled = SettingsHelper.isEnabled(settings, DiscrubSetting.REACTIONS_ENABLED);
const delay = SettingsHelper.getNumber(settings, DiscrubSetting.SEARCH_DELAY, 2);

export-utils

Export-specific utilities: mention replacement, emoji HTML conversion.

message-formatting-utils

Discord message parsing: extract mentions, parse special formatting.

Filtering

import { updateFilters } from 'discrub-core/filtering';

const newFilters = updateFilters(currentFilters, newFilter);

Supports: text, date, toggle, array, and thread filter types.

Guards

import { isMessage, isGuild, isAttachment } from 'discrub-core/discrub-guards';
import { isNonNullable } from 'discrub-core/common-guards';

Configuration

Services are configured via settings objects. All settings are stored as strings (for localStorage/chrome.storage compatibility):

Setting	Description	Default
SEARCH_DELAY	Seconds between search API calls	"2"
DELETE_DELAY	Seconds between delete operations	"1"
DELAY_MODIFIER	Random delay variance (seconds)	"0.5"
REACTIONS_ENABLED	Fetch reaction user data during export	"true"
DISPLAY_NAME_LOOKUP	Fetch display names for users	"false"
SERVER_NICKNAME_LOOKUP	Fetch server nicknames	"false"

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run tests (846 tests)
npm test

# Build
npx vite build

# Lint
npm run lint

Dependencies

• date-fns — Date formatting and manipulation
• highlight.js — Code block syntax highlighting in HTML exports
• filenamify — Safe filesystem name generation
• nanoid — Unique ID generation
• copy-to-clipboard — Clipboard utilities

License

All rights reserved. © 2024-2026 prathercc. See LICENSE.

The source code in this repository is publicly visible for transparency and security review. discrub-core is published to npm to support Discrub's build pipeline; it is not licensed for use by other parties without explicit permission from the copyright holder.

"Discrub" and the Discrub logo are trademarks of prathercc.