discord-fav-gif-dl

Downloads all your favourited GIFs on Discord.

Usage

• Save your GIFFavoritesStore to a file
  • Open Developer Tools in your browser or Discord's desktop application
  • Navigate to the Application tab > Local Storage > https://discord.com > GIFFavoritesStore

    • If using the Discord desktop application, you may need to first enable Developer Tools by adding the following line to your %APPDATA%/discord/settings.json file:

      "DANGEROUS_ENABLE_DEVTOOLS_ONLY_ENABLE_IF_YOU_KNOW_WHAT_YOURE_DOING": true

  • Copy the contents of the Value field and save it to a file (e.g. data.json)
• Download the contents of this repository to your computer
• Install required packages by running python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run the script using python get_gifs.py --json-file-path <path to GIFFavoritesStore data file>
  • You can use the --dont-rename-files option to download files with their original names, instead of renaming them to hex strings.
• Review output directory and failed.txt

Why does this exist?

Have you ever had a moment where you stumble upon the perfect GIF on Discord, that sums up exactly what you're feeling and end up favouriting it? That happens to me on a VERY frequent basis.

However, as I kept favouriting more and more, I realised that there was a limit to how many GIFs I could favourite; the GIFFavoritesStore had a size limit. I didn't want to lose any of my beloved GIFs, so I started looking for a solution.

That's when I came up with the idea of this script. It would allow me to download all my favourited GIFs with short file names so that I could reupload them to another site with shorter URLs (since Tenor and Discord links tend to be quite lengthy).