Message Logger To File

[rokenrock]

Plugin Description

I'd just like a raw text message logger for specific update channels in specific servers. Something output as raw text so I can get at it in C++. It seems the functionality is mostly already there, but I'm not familiar with typescript. Alternatively just dumping every single message in a text file is fine too.

Wasn't sure where to put this, I'm willing to donate if you'd like.

Existing Plugin for other mod

Somewhat similar to the official ModView/MessageLogger

Request Agreement

• [X] I read the above and made sure my plugin is possible and allowed
• [X] I checked the existing plugins and made sure my plugin doesn't already exist
• [X] I searched the existing issues and made sure a similar request doesn't already exist

[Vendicated]

this request doesn't make a lot of sense to me

could you explain your motivation and end goal a bit better? why do you need / want this?

[rokenrock]

Sure- I was trying to not bore you with the details, but around a year ago I made a personal app to aggregate new manga chapters and present a list of their names and URLs in a sorted list so I can read them in my own time, at my own pace. The sites post all these updates in a Discord channel, but when I made the app I had it checking their websites since I couldn't figure out how to check the channels with Discord.

But now all of those sites are getting protection of some sort- checking them has become near-impossible. Hence where the message log comes in. If I can get a list of messages in the update channels, I can piece together what the latest chapter is and display it accordingly. It may not sound like a lot, but when there are 50 series of interest spread across 3 servers and 3 sites with constantly changing URLs, it really helps.

I'd love to show you it in it's full glory, but everything is broken.

[Vendicated]

this sounds like it'd be much better to do it with a discord bot. it's pretty easy and quick to make one if you know how to code

[rokenrock]

That's what I was thinking at first too, but I'm not sure how it would be possible with a bot. I'm just a regular user in all of those servers, and I can't follow the update channels to get it in a server that I could get a bot in...

[rokenrock]

But if you have any ideas, please let me know! Or if you could point me towards the relevant functionality vectors you've already implemented in Vencord, I'll see if I can't learn enough typescript to bodge it together.

[theskiratta]

I believe it is possible to run a bot from a user account, though I'm not certain if it's exactly within Discord ToS, so that would be at own risk / on an alt account.