dscli

dscli: A command-line tool for storing files on Discord

Dscli (Discord store CLI) provides a way to store files with no size restrictions.

Requirements

• Empty Discord server
• You'll need a bot/user token and the server id

Installation

Make sure you have go installed (version 1.13+ is required).

go get -u github.com/darenliang/dscli

You can also download pre-built binaries for Windows, Linux and MacOS: https://github.com/darenliang/dscli/releases

Quickstart

For Bot Tokens (highly recommended):

dscli config -t=<YOUR-DISCORD-BOT-TOKEN> -i=<YOUR-SERVER-ID> -b

For User Tokens:

dscli config -t=<YOUR-DISCORD-TOKEN> -i=<YOUR-SERVER-ID>

A complete setup guide (including creating a server and getting user tokens) can be found here or by using the command:

dscli quickstart

Commands

Configure application

dscli config

List files

dscli ls

Upload file

Use local filename

dscli up <local file>

Specify remote filename

dscli up <local file> <remote file>

Download file

Use remote filename

dscli dl <remote file>

Specify local filename

dscli dl <remote file> <local file>

Move file

dscli mv <source file> <destination file>

Remove file

dscli rm <remote file>

Statistics

• Number of files stored
• Total size stored
• Upload chunk size

dscli stats

Quick Benchmarks

Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS on Gigabit internet

Please take these numbers with a grain of salt.

• Cold: Initial download
• Warm: Later downloads
• Nitro: Discord Nitro

Limitations

• No folders
• Limited filename lengths
  • Filenames are encoded in base32
  • Base32 strings cannot be longer than 100 characters
• No file appending or editing
• File number limit of 500 (max number of channels)
• Subject to Discord rate limits (5 anything per 5 seconds per server)
  • 8 MB x 5 / 5s = 8 MB/s (theoretical sustained upload speed for non-Nitro users)
  • 50 MB x 5 / 5s = 50 MB/s (theoretical sustained upload speed for Nitro classic users)
  • 100 MB x 5 / 5s = 100 MB/s (theoretical sustained upload speed for Nitro users)

Possible improvements

• FUSE integration
• Exposing an API for other libraries/programs to use

License

MIT