whatsapp-chat-parser

A module to parse WhatsApp chats

Use-Cases?

• Analysis of WhatsApp messages for different domain-specific motives.
• Processing WhatsApp messages.
• Having an interface for reading raw WhatsApp chat exports.

Usage

Installing module

python3 setup.py install

Running the module

from whatsapp_chat_parser import get_messages
messages = get_messages("chat.txt") 
for message in messages["chats"]:
  print(message["author"])
  print(message["message"])
  print(message["timestamp"])
for descriptive_message in messages["descriptive_messages"]:
  print(descriptive_message)

API

>>> messages = whatsapp_chat_parser.get_messages("chat.txt") # Parameters: path of the chat txt file, and an optional (date_format) string (default date_format: [%d/%m/%Y, %H:%M:%S])
>>> messages["chats"]  # Chats, ordered by timestamp.
>>> for message in messages["chats"]:
>>>   message["chats"]["timestamp"] # Timestamp in datetime
>>>   message["chats"]["original_date"] # Original timestamp
>>>   message["chats"]["message"] # Message
>>>   message["chats"]["Author"] # Author
>>> message["descriptive_messages"]  # List of descriptive messages that was sent by WhatsApp, ordered by timestamp.

Examples

The ./examples directory has CLI examples.

$ python parse_chat.py
-::: parse-chat.py (for whatsapp-chat-parser) :::-
-::: by: Mazin Ahmed (mazin[at]mazinahmed.net) :::-
Usage parse_chat.py [_chat.txt]

$ python get_author_count.py
25000 --> X
30 --> Y
1 --> Z

Exporting Chats

Exporting chats is done from the WhatsApp app. You can follow WhatsApp documentation for the details.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/23756533/.

Requirements

• Python 3

License

The project is licensed under MIT License.

Author

Mazin Ahmed

• Website: https://mazinahmed.net
• Email: mazin [at] mazinahmed [dot] net
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/mazen160
• Linkedin: http://linkedin.com/in/infosecmazinahmed