What's in a Discord ID?
Discord account IDs have four parts, the interesting one of which is when the account was created. Below is a way to retrieve a Discord account’s creation time from the account’s ID using Python. If you don’t need to automate this, it’s probably easier to open https://discord.com/users/<Discord account ID>.
from datetime import datetime
from datetime import timezone
def split_snowflake(snowflake: int) -> tuple[datetime, int, int, int]:
"""Splits a Discord snowflake, such as a user ID, into its parts
Returns
-------
dt: datetime
The date and time the snowflake was created.
worker_id: int
The internal worker ID.
process_id: int
The internal process ID.
increment: int
The ID's increment. For each ID generated on a process, this number
is incremented.
References
----------
- https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#snowflakes
"""
discord_epoch_ms: int = 1420070400000
unix_timestamp_ms: int = (snowflake >> 22) + discord_epoch_ms
unix_timestamp_s: float = unix_timestamp_ms / 1000
dt: datetime = datetime.fromtimestamp(unix_timestamp_s, tz=timezone.utc)
worker_id: int = (snowflake & 0x3E0000) >> 17
process_id: int = (snowflake & 0x1F000) >> 12
increment: int = snowflake & 0xFFF
return dt, worker_id, process_id, increment
def test_split_snowflake():
dt: datetime = datetime(
year=2016,
month=4,
day=30,
hour=11,
minute=18,
second=25,
microsecond=796000,
tzinfo=timezone.utc,
)
assert split_snowflake(175928847299117063) == (dt, 1, 0, 7)