Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online

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. Se…

A team of 15 researchers from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil scraped Discord as part of a research project, creating a database of more than 2 billion messages that they have made available online. The researchers say they have anonymized the data.

Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online

Matthew Gault / 404 Media: Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online  —  A Brazilian team used Discord's API to scrape 10% of its open servers.  —  Researchers published a massive database …