Discord Forum Channel Exporter

Export Discord forum posts, tags, authors, reply counts, timestamps, and thread URLs from servers you own or manage.

This Actor is for community owners, moderators, support teams, creators, game servers, and product communities that use Discord forum channels and need a clean CSV/API export.

What it exports

The Actor can export forum/media channel thread metadata including:

• forum channel name and ID
• thread/post title
• thread URL
• applied forum tags
• owner ID
• starter author ID/username when first-post export is enabled
• message/reply counts
• total messages sent when Discord provides it
• created timestamp
• last message timestamp
• archived/locked status
• auto-archive duration

By default, the Actor exports thread metadata only. First post content is optional and disabled by default.

Important permission note

This Actor is for Discord servers you own or manage. It requires your own Discord bot token and only accesses channels your bot has permission to read.

It does not bypass Discord permissions, use user tokens, scrape private servers, or extract members from servers you do not control.

Input

{
  "botToken": "YOUR_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN",
  "guildId": "123456789012345678",
  "forumChannelIds": ["234567890123456789"],
  "includeArchivedThreads": true,
  "includePrivateArchivedThreads": false,
  "includeFirstPostContent": false,
  "maxThreadsPerChannel": 500
}

Input fields

• botToken — Discord bot token. Store this as a secret.
• guildId — Discord server ID.
• forumChannelIds — optional list of forum/media channel IDs. If omitted, the Actor exports all visible forum/media channels.
• includeArchivedThreads — include public archived threads.
• includePrivateArchivedThreads — try private archived threads if your bot has permission.
• includeFirstPostContent — export first post text. Disabled by default for privacy.
• maxThreadsPerChannel — cap per channel to control runtime and output size.

Output

The dataset includes CSV-friendly rows:

• summary — start/final summary rows
• forum_channel — one row per exported forum/media channel
• thread — one row per forum thread/post
• channel_error — non-fatal per-channel permission/API issues

Example thread row:

{
  "recordType": "thread",
  "guildId": "123456789012345678",
  "forumChannelId": "234567890123456789",
  "forumChannelName": "support",
  "threadId": "345678901234567890",
  "threadTitle": "How do I connect Shopify?",
  "threadUrl": "https://discord.com/channels/123456789012345678/234567890123456789/345678901234567890",
  "appliedTagNames": ["question", "shopify"],
  "messageCount": 12,
  "createdAt": "2026-07-04T00:00:00.000Z",
  "archived": false,
  "locked": false
}

Bot setup

Your Discord bot should be installed in the server and have permission to:

• view the selected forum channels
• read message history

If you enable first post content export, the bot also needs access to message content for those channels.

Common uses

• export support forum posts for auditing
• archive bug report or feature request threads
• analyze which tags are being used
• find stale unanswered forum posts
• move Discord forum data into Sheets, Airtable, Notion, or a data warehouse