Discord to moon

Tool i made to convert discord json download into an image (using ascii bytes as RGB) for mr beasts lunar capsule thing.

Building

cd into the same directory as the .csproj file and run one of the following:

dotnet publish -r ubuntu.20.04-x64 -c Release /p:PublishSingleFile=true /p:PublishTrimmed=true --self-contained for linux

dotnet publish -r win10-x64 -c Release /p:PublishSingleFile=true /p:PublishTrimmed=true --self-contained for windows

This will create bin/Release/netcoreapp3.1/<either win10-x64 or ubuntu.20.04-x64>/publish which will contain the executable which can then be run using the command line (DiscordToMoon.exe on windows and ./DiscordToMoon on linux)

Usage

Git clone this repo then use dotnet CLI to compile for your platform. Alternatively, as of v1.1, precompiled binaries for linux and windows are available (see releases tab)

Writing discord channels

You should download messages in your discord server using this https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter and specify the format as json

Put all of the JSON files (should be one per channel) into one directory (duplicate channels will be merged automatically) and run DiscordToMoon write folder-of-json-input output.png to create the image

Reading images

You can read the text in an image into a file with DiscordToMoon read input.png output.txt

Writing raw text

If you want to play around with the text to image functionality, put a string (any text) in a file and run DiscordToMoon writeraw input.txt out.png