Discord Data Analyzer

A terminal UI tool to analyze your Discord data export — built in Rust.

┌─ Discord Data Analyzer ────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  YourName#0000                           msgs  12,451          │
│  Ready                                   channels  183         │
├─ Home ──  Overview ──  Channels ──  Settings ──────────────────┤
│                                                                 │
│  ┌─ Menu ────────────────────┐  ┌─ Quick Stats ──────────────┐ │
│  │  1  Analyze Now           │  │  Messages      12,451      │ │
│  │  2  Overview              │  │  Channels         183      │ │
│  │  3  Support & Activity    │  │  With text      94.2%      │ │
│  │  4  Download Attachments  │  │  Avg length       42 ch    │ │
│  │  5  Messages (All)        │  │  Emoji          3,821      │ │
│  │  6  DMs                   │  │  Servers           27      │ │
│  │  7  Group DMs             │  │                            │ │
│  │  8  Public Threads        │  │  Peak 21:00    843 msgs    │ │
│  │  9  Voice Channels        │  └────────────────────────────┘ │
│  │  10 Settings              │                                 │
│  │  11 Quit                  │                                 │
│  └───────────────────────────┘                                 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Features

• Message stats — total count, channels, emoji, attachments, average length, top words
• Temporal analysis — messages by hour-of-day, day-of-week, and month; earliest and latest dates
• Channel browser — filter by DMs, Group DMs, Public Threads, and Voice; read message previews
• Overview dashboard — server count, audit logs, support tickets, activity events
• Support & Activity Explorer — browse individual support tickets and recent activity events
• Memory-safe activity loading — streams only recent tails from activity files (works with very large exports)
• Attachment downloader — fetch all media files from your message history
• Session persistence — resumes your last session automatically on next launch
• Mouse support — click tabs/menu items and scroll channel/message lists
• Zero dependencies at runtime — single static binary, no install required

Download

Head to the Releases page and grab the binary for your platform:

Platform	File
Windows (x64)	discord-analyzer-windows-x64.exe
macOS (Apple Silicon)	discord-analyzer-macos-arm64
macOS (Intel)	discord-analyzer-macos-intel
Linux (x64)	discord-analyzer-linux-x64

On macOS/Linux, mark the binary as executable before running:

chmod +x discord-analyzer-*
./discord-analyzer-macos-arm64

On macOS you may need to allow the binary in System Settings > Privacy & Security.

Get Your Discord Data

1. Open Discord and go to User Settings (gear icon next to your username)
2. Scroll down to Privacy & Safety
3. Click Request all of my Data
4. Confirm the request
5. Wait 1–2 days — Discord will email you a download link
6. Download and extract the zip file

Usage

Run the binary from your terminal:

./discord-analyzer

On first run, a setup wizard walks you through:

1. Export path — paste the path to your extracted Discord data folder
2. Results directory — where to save analysis output (defaults to inside the export folder)
3. Profile ID — optional, for managing multiple exports

Then select Analyze Now from the home menu. Analysis runs in the background with a live progress bar.

Controls

Key	Action
w / s or arrow keys	Move up / down
Enter	Select
Mouse left-click	Select menu/tabs/items
Mouse wheel	Scroll channels/messages
b	Go back
q	Quit
1–5	Switch channel filters (All / DMs / Groups / Threads / Voice)
u / d	Page up / down in channel list
← / →	Adjust settings values
In Support & Activity	↑/↓ select ticket, PgUp/PgDn scroll detail, r reload
In Support & Activity	Tab switch focus (tickets/activity), / query filter, t type filter, y source filter, c clear filters

Build from Source

Requires Rust stable.

git clone https://github.com/GrishMahat/discord-data-cli.git
cd discord-data-cli
cargo build --release
./target/release/discord-analyzer

Why Rust?

I originally started this in Python but hadn't touched it in almost a year. Rust was what I was actively using, so I built it in Rust instead. It's not about performance — it just made sense to use the language I actually knew.

License

GNU General Public License v3 — see LICENSE