Clearline - Message Manager for Discord

Search, export and bulk delete your own Discord messages. Your token never leaves the browser.

Discord lets you delete your own messages one at a time. Hover, open the menu, click delete, confirm. Doing that to a few thousand messages is not a realistic afternoon, and Discord offers no other way. Clearline does it for you, and it shows you exactly what it is about to remove before it removes anything. WHAT IT DOES Open Discord in a tab and sign in, then click the Clearline icon. It goes in five steps, one screen at a time. 1. Connect. Clearline reads your session from the Discord tab you already have open. 2. Where. Pick a server, particular channels of a server, or a direct message. 3. Narrow. Filter by text or a pattern, by a date range, or by whether a message has an attachment, a link or an embed. Pinned messages are left alone unless you say otherwise. 4. Review. See the count, then the messages themselves, listed out. Untick anything you want to keep. Save a copy as HTML, JSON or CSV. 5. Act. Delete them, replace the text, or replace the text and then delete. Watch it run, pause it, or stop it partway. WHY PEOPLE USE IT Clearing out years of old messages before a job search. Taking your history out of a server you have left. Removing something you posted by mistake that ended up in more places than you can find by hand. Keeping a readable archive of your own conversations before any of it goes. IT SHOWS YOU FIRST The delete button cannot be reached without first seeing a count and the messages behind it. Before a run starts you get a plain sentence: how many messages, in which place, matching what, roughly how long it will take, and that it cannot be undone. Runs over a hundred messages ask you to type the count back before they will start. A copy is written and handed to your browser before the first deletion rather than alongside it, so if building the export is going to fail, it fails while the messages still exist. The count only includes messages Discord will actually let you delete. Join notices and similar system messages are attributed to you and show up in search results, but nobody can delete them, so Clearline names them separately and leaves them alone instead of promising more than it can deliver. When it finishes you get a report that keeps failures separate from skips, and offers to retry the failures. PACED SO YOUR ACCOUNT SURVIVES This is the part that matters most and the easiest to get wrong. Every request goes through one queue, one at a time, with a gap between writes that you cannot shorten. Rate limit responses are read and respected. Four in a row stop the run, because continuing to generate them is what gets an IP address blocked for an hour. Only one Clearline tab works at a time, since a second tab would be a second queue and Discord would see twice the rate. A second tab tells you so and offers to take over. Because the pacing is fixed and predictable, the time estimate you get before you start is the time it actually takes. YOUR TOKEN AND YOUR DATA Discord has no way to authorise an app to read or delete your own message history, so tools in this category work from the session your browser already holds. Being plain about that matters more than glossing over it. Clearline reads your session from an open Discord tab, only when you click Connect. It stays in that tab's memory, is never written to storage, and is gone when you close the tab. discord.com is the only site the extension can reach, and its build fails if any network call appears anywhere other than its single API file. There is no account, no sign-up, no server, no analytics and no telemetry. The extension asks for one permission, storage, which it uses to remember a single tab number so two copies cannot run at once. There is one link in the window, to a Buy Me a Coffee page. It is optional, it is a link and nothing more, and nothing is requested from that site unless you click it. BEFORE YOU INSTALL Automating a user account is against Discord's terms of service, and people do get actioned for it. Clearline paces itself far more carefully than the alternatives, which lowers the odds without removing them. If losing the account would be a serious problem, export your messages first and decide whether the deletion is worth it. Clearline is free and open source under the MIT license. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Discord Inc.