whatsapp-chat-exporter 0.6

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

Whatsapp-Chat-Exporter

An Android and iPhone Whatsapp database parser that will give you the history of your Whatsapp conversations in HTML and JSON.
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

Usage

If you want to use the old release (< 0.5) of the exporter, please follow the old usage guide

First, install the exporter by:

pip install whatsapp-chat-exporter

Then, create a working directory in somewhere you want

mkdir working_wts
cd working_wts

Working with Android

Extract the WhatsApp database with whatever means, one possible means is to use the WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor

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.

And now, you should have something like this in the working directory.

Extracting

Simply invoke the following command from shell, remember to replace the username and device id correspondingly in the command.

wtsexporter -a

Working with iPhone

Do an iPhone Backup with iTunes first.

Encrypted iPhone Backup

If you are working on unencrypted iPhone backup, skip this

If you want to work on an encrypted iPhone Backup, you should install iphone_backup_decrypt from KnugiHK/iphone_backup_decrypt before you run the extract_iphone_media.py.

pip install biplist pycryptodome & :: Optional, since the pip will install these dependencies automatically.
pip install git+https://github.com/KnugiHK/iphone_backup_decrypt

Extracting

Simply invoke the following command from shell, remember to replace the username and device id correspondingly in the command.

wtsexporter -i -b "C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\[device id]"

Results

After extracting, you will get these:

Private Message

Group Message

More options

Invoke the wtsexporter with --help option will show you all options available.

> wtsexporter --help
Usage: wtsexporter [options]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a, --android         Define the target as Android
  -i, --iphone          Define the target as iPhone
  -w WA, --wa=WA        Path to contact database
  -m MEDIA, --media=MEDIA
                        Path to WhatsApp media folder
  -b BACKUP, --backup=BACKUP
                        Path to iPhone backup
  -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
                        Output to specific directory
  -j, --json            Save the result to a single JSON file
  -d DB, --db=DB        Path to database file

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