Discord: Blast from the Past

Media preservation and "relive past memories" tool.

Usage - Message Buttons

Jump

Jumps to the message the image is comming from. NOTE: Due to the use of ephemeral messages, the unshared bot messages will dissapear once clicked when channel has a sufficiently large amount of messages.

More Please

A shorthand for /btfp show random.

Share [ephmerial only]

Posts the same image to the channel for everyone to see.

Save [ephmerial only]

Sends the image to the DMs.

Usage - Commands

This simple plugin exposes 2 slash commands:

/btfp import [channel_id {default: current_channel_id}]

Requires Admin Permissions.

Scans the specified channel for images (starts all the way at the beginning of the channel), (optionally, configured with /btfp config save-images) downloads them to local storage, and takes a note of all messages that has images. This is required to display images, as bots do not have access to the search discord API.

/btfp show random [channel_id {default: current_channel_id}]

Displays a random image which was indexed by /btfp import.

Usage - Message Components

Message components can be accessed by right-clicking a messagage and navigating to Apps section in the dropdown.

Apps -> BFTP: Share

Creates a new blast from the image and shares it in the channel. Equivalent to the Share component.

Apps -> BFTP: Save

Creates a new blast from the image and saves in DMs. Equivalent to the Save component.

Usage - Archival

When self-hosting and not using the official bot, you can additionally archive the images you want!

Self-Host Installation

# ./docker-compose.yml

services:
  app:
    image: ghcr.io/gedasfx/discord-blastfromthepast:master
    environment:
      DISCORD_TOKEN: ${DISCORD_TOKEN}
      ARCHIVE_DISCORD_GUILD_IDS: 123,456,789,COMMA_SEPERATED_GUILD_IDS_YOU_WANT_TO_ARCHIVE_IMAGES_OF
    volumes:
      - ./data:/app/data
    restart: unless-stopped

Make sure to also update the user of the folder:

sudo chown 1654:1654 ./data

Privacy Notice

The bot locally stores guild_id, channel_id, message_id, and attachment_id of every message with images. It is not enough to reconstruct the images without the bots presence.

All data gets deleted after bot is removed from the Discord Server.