Discordo ·

Discordo is a lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal client. Heavily work-in-progress, expect breaking changes.

Features

• Lightweight
• Configurable
• Mouse & clipboard support
• Notifications
• 2-Factor authentication
• Discord-flavored markdown

Installation

Prebuilt binaries

You can download and install a prebuilt binary here for Windows, macOS, or Linux.

Package managers

• Arch Linux: yay -S discordo-git

• FreeBSD: pkg install discordo or via the ports system make -C /usr/ports/net-im/discordo install clean.

• NixOS: nix-shell -p discordo

• Windows (Scoop):

scoop bucket add vvxrtues https://github.com/vvirtues/bucket
scoop install discordo

Building from source

git clone https://github.com/ayn2op/discordo
cd discordo
go build .

Linux clipboard support

• xclip or xsel for X11 (apt install xclip)
• wl-clipboard for Wayland (apt install wl-clipboard)

Usage

1. Run the discordo executable with no arguments.

If you are logging in using an authentication token, provide the token command-line flag to the executable (eg: --token "OTI2MDU5NTQxNDE2Nzc5ODA2.Yc2KKA.2iZ-5JxgxG-9Ub8GHzBSn-NJjNg"). The token is stored securely in the default OS-specific keyring.

2. Enter your email and password and click on the "Login" button to continue.

Keymaps

Global

• Ctrl+G: Focus Guilds Tree
• Ctrl+T: Focus Messages Text
• Ctrl+P: Focus Message Input
• Ctrl+B: Toggle Guilds Tree (sidebar)
• Esc: Reset message selection or close the channel selection popup.
• Ctrl+C: Quit the application.
• Ctrl+D: Log out and remove the authentication token from keyring (requires re-login upon restart).

Navigation

• k: Select Previous (any context except input)
• j: Select Next (any context except input)
• g: Select First (any context except input)
• G: Select Last (any context except input)

Guilds Tree

• Enter: Select the currently highlighted text-based channel or expand a guild or channel.

Message Text

• s: Select the message reference (reply) of the selected channel.
• p: Select the pinned message.
• r: Reply to the selected message.
• R: Reply (with mention) to the selected message.
• d: Delete the selected message.
• y: Yank (copy) the selected message's content.
• o: Open the selected message's attachments in the default browser application.

Message Input

• Alt+Enter: Insert a new line to the current text.
• Enter: Send the message.
• Ctrl+E: Open message input in your default $EDITOR.
• Esc: Remove existing text or cancel reply.

Configuration

The configuration file allows you to configure and customize the behavior, keybindings, and theme of the application.

• Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/discordo/config.toml or $HOME/.config/discordo/config.toml
• Darwin: $HOME/Library/Application Support/discordo/config.toml
• Windows: %AppData%/discordo/config.toml

The default configuration can be found here.

FAQ

Manually adding token to keyring

Do this if you get the error:

failed to get token from keyring: secret not found in keyring

MacOS

Run the following command in a terminal window with sudo to create the token entry.

security add-generic-password -s discordo -a token -w "DISCORD TOKEN HERE"

Linux

1. Start the keyring daemon.

eval $(gnome-keyring-daemon --start)
export $(gnome-keyring-daemon --start)

2. Create the login keyring if it does not exist already. See GNOME/Keyring for more information.

3. Run the following command to create the token entry.

secret-tool store --label="DISCORD TOKEN HERE" service discordo username token

4. When it prompts for the password, paste your token, and hit enter to confirm.

Disclaimer

Automated user accounts or "self-bots" are against Discord's Terms of Service. I am not responsible for any loss caused by using "self-bots" or Discordo.