About the project
Discord recently felt like it would be a good idea to limit the favorites to 250, which made me lose most of my gifs... Luckily for us, the links of the gifs are stored in Discord's local storage until you log off the app.
Getting Started
Prerequisite
- This is a python script, so you'll need to have python installed, duh.
- You will also need the requests module (can be installed by typing
pip install requests
in a terminal)
Setting up the backup
Before using the Python script you must first setup some stuff
- Open up Discord and then press
CTRL
+SHIFT
+I
. - Go to the
Application
tab.
- Then go to the left side and click
Local Storage
>https://discordapp.com
. - Type
gif
in the filter box
- Double click the value of
GIFFavoritesStore
and press CTRL + C
- Go in this project's folder and open up
data.json
- Paste what you copied earlier in the file and save.
- Run the python script and enjoy!
License
who cares just yoink it