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# Whatsapp-Chat-Exporter
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An Android and iPhone Whatsapp database parser that will give you the history of your Whatsapp conversations in HTML and JSON.
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**If you plan to uninstall WhatsApp or delete your WhatsApp account, please make a backup of your WhatsApp database. You may want to use this exporter again on the same database in the future as the exporter develops**
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# Usage
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**If you want to use the old release (< 0.5) of the exporter, please follow the [old usage guide](old_README.md#usage)**
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First, install the exporter by:
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```shell
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pip install whatsapp-chat-exporter
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```
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Then, create a working directory in somewhere you want
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```shell
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mkdir working_wts
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cd working_wts
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```
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## Working with Android
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Extract the WhatsApp database with whatever means, one possible means is to use the [WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor](https://github.com/KnugiHK/WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor)
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After you obtain your WhatsApp databse, copy the WhatsApp database and media folder to the working directory. The database is called msgstore.db. If you also want the name of your contacts, get the contact database, which is called wa.db. And copy the WhatsApp (Media) directory from your phone directly.
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And now, you should have something like this in the working directory.
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### Extracting
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Simply invoke the following command from shell, remember to replace the username and device id correspondingly in the command.
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```sh
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wtsexporter -a
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```
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## Working with iPhone
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Do an iPhone Backup with iTunes first.
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### Encrypted iPhone Backup
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**If you are working on unencrypted iPhone backup, skip this**
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If you want to work on an encrypted iPhone Backup, you should install iphone_backup_decrypt from [KnugiHK/iphone_backup_decrypt](https://github.com/KnugiHK/iphone_backup_decrypt) before you run the extract_iphone_media.py.
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```sh
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pip install biplist pycryptodome & :: Optional, since the pip will install these dependencies automatically.
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pip install git+https://github.com/KnugiHK/iphone_backup_decrypt
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```
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### Extracting
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Simply invoke the following command from shell, remember to replace the username and device id correspondingly in the command.
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```sh
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wtsexporter -i -b "C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\[device id]"
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```
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## Results
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After extracting, you will get these:
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#### Private Message
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#### Group Message
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## More options
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Invoke the wtsexporter with --help option will show you all options available.
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```sh
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> wtsexporter --help
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Usage: wtsexporter [options]
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Options:
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--version show program's version number and exit
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-h, --help show this help message and exit
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-a, --android Define the target as Android
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-i, --iphone Define the target as iPhone
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-w WA, --wa=WA Path to contact database
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-m MEDIA, --media=MEDIA
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Path to WhatsApp media folder
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-b BACKUP, --backup=BACKUP
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Path to iPhone backup
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-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
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Output to specific directory
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-j, --json Save the result to a single JSON file
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-d DB, --db=DB Path to database file
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```
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# To do
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1. Convert ```\r\n``` to ```<br>```
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2. Reply in iPhone
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3. The CSS for metadata (e.g. {Message Deleted})
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# Copyright
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This is a MIT licensed project.
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The Telegram Desktop's export is the reference for whatsapp.html in this repo
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