Dimport

Imports messages from JSON files generated by DiscordChatExporter and replaces expired links with media files downloaded by Dimage.

⚙️ Features

• Imports messages from DiscordChatExporter JSON files as Discord bot messages.
• Replaces expired attachment links with local media files downloaded by Dimage.
• Automatically scans multiple directory structures for media files (avatars, channels, emojis).
• Customizable Discord-like message appearance with extensive configuration options.
• Handles multiple images per message using Discord's multi-embed system.
• Converts reactions to interactive buttons or native Discord reactions.
• Preserves user mentions with clickable Discord format.
• Provides message range selection (first N, last N, or custom range).
• Includes cancellation system for long-running imports.
• Offers two import modes: embedded (Discord-like) and outside (raw content with attachments).
• Supports multiple imports inside channels (multiple servers were not tested).
• Optional embed-free import mode for minimal processing.

⚠️ Disclaimers

Discord doesn't allow sending messages and embeds from user accounts, so all imported messages are sent from the name of a Discord bot. This program tries to mimic real messages as much as possible using a variety of different options, so good luck.

🚀 Installation from crates.io

cargo install dimport

🛠️ Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/Inc44/Dimport.git
cd Dimport
cargo build --release

📦 Publish

cargo publish

🧾 Configuration

Create a .env file or set environment variables.

DISCORD_TOKEN=your_bot_token

📖 Usage Example

cargo run --release

/import "<export.json>" "<media_root>"

/cancel

/help

🎨 Command-Line Arguments

🎯 Motivation

DiscordChatExporter supports only exporting. Discord-Chat-Importer has been inactive for over two years and does not support link expiration introduced in late 2023. After creating the original version of Dimage in February 2025 and updating it recently, I decided to build a new alternative from scratch in Rust. It is inspired by Discord-Chat-Importer in response style but includes new features and improved performance.

🐛 Bugs

Discord supports a maximum of 4 images per embed (PC only, 1 for other devices), not fixable yet. More details:

• Is it possible to attach multiple images in an embed?
• Finally a way to display multiple images in an Embed!

Discord opens the browser when clicking on a user handle instead of doing the same inside Discord, not fixable yet. More details:

• Open a user's profile when sending a link like https://discord.com/users/USER_ID

set_var of dotenvy is unsafe under the Rust 2024 edition. More details:

• Functions that modify the environment have undocumented safety requirements

There is an edge case that makes the original message disappear when 11 buttons are added via --button; this does not happen by default when normal reactions are used.

Cancel may not work if there are multiple imports in the same channel.

Replies are randomly marked. A possible solution is to add an option to reply as an embed to make them consistent.

⛔ Known Limitations

Discord bots can't react with the same emoji types multiple times to the message, so for mimicking multiple reactions, you can use --button. However, Discord does not support changing button text on click natively, so the button's reaction count doesn't change. Also, to avoid getting "Button interaction failed," you can freeze/disable buttons to make them unclickable using --disable-button, which unfortunately makes them grayed out. If you do not want to import reactions, you can use --no-reactions. So, good luck choosing your poison.

/import can't be registered as a slash command because it has too many flags or options, and it makes the bot send separate messages instead of one stream. Therefore, its output cannot be ephemeral. Embeds are not suppressed for /help when ephemeral is used, probably because they disappear anyway.

<json_path> can be a link, either Google Drive download type https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=... or GitHub raw type https://raw.githubusercontent.com/user/repo/refs/heads/master/.... However, other websites may not work for unknown reasons, like some temporary clipboards https://nopaste.net/....

Emojis that do not belong to the server are not visible.

Content like embeds or polls is not imported.

🚧 TODO

• Import from current channel to another channel
• /delete (last import, last n imports, all imports)
• Tests (json, media)

🙏 Thanks

Creators of:

• Rust
• Serenity and Poise
• Serde
• Tokio
• walkdir
• dotenvy
• reqwest
• zip
• tempfile

People:

• Sharing how to send multiple images inside one embed
  • Is it possible to attach multiple images in an embed?
  • Finally a way to display multiple images in an Embed!

🤝 Contribution

Contributions, suggestions, and new ideas are heartily welcomed. If you're considering significant modifications, please initiate an issue for discussion before submitting a pull request.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

💖 Support