WhatsApp-Chat-Exporter/README.md

Whatsapp-Chat-Exporter

A Whatsapp database parser that will give you the history of your Whatsapp conversation in HTML and JSON

Usage

First, clone this repo, and copy all py and html files to a working directory if you want to do so.

git clone https://github.com/KnugiHK/Whatsapp-Chat-Exporter.git

Then, ready your WhatsApp database, place them in the root of working directory.

• For Android, it is called msgstore.db. If you want name of your contacts, get the contact database, which is called wa.db.
• For iPhone, it is called 7c7fba66680ef796b916b067077cc246adacf01d (YES, a hash).

Next, ready your media folder, place it in the root of working directory.

• For Android, copy the WhatsApp directory from your phone directly.
• For iPhone, run the extract_iphone_media.py, and you will get a folder called Message. Please note that, this script does not support encrypted backup.

python extract_iphone_media.py "C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\[device id]"

And now, you should have something like this:

Last, run the script regarding the type of phone.

python extract.py & :: Android
python extract_iphone.py & :: iPhone

And you will get these:

Private Message

Group Message

To do

1. Convert \r\n to <br>
2. Reply in iPhone
3. The CSS for metadata (e.g. {Message Deleted})

Copyright

This is a MIT licensed project.

The Telegram Desktop's export is the reference for whatsapp.html in this repo