comm-history

Overview

Format your exported email and WhatsApp conversation in HTML.

• WhatsApp: Use the Saving your chat history instructions to export your chat history. You'll get an email with a .txt file. Save it on disk.
• Email: Save each email as a separate file in simple text format (MH or similiar) by using the export functionality of your mail program.

Then run this script.

Requirements

• Python 3
• python3-dateutil (on Debian)
• python3-jinja2 (on Debian)

SYNOPSIS

comm_history.py [-s <style_file>] [-c] -o <output_file> -i <input_file1 [input_file2 ...]>

With options as follows:

-s <style_file>

Optional CSS style file to use instead of the bundled default.

-c

Collate subsequent messages by same user.

-o <output_file>

The HTML conversation file to write.

-i <input_file1 [input_file2 ...]>

The text input files. You can mix WhatsApp and email export files and the order is not important.

TODOs

Email integration tasks:

• rename files
• rename GitHub project
• order messages by date
• add message type
• apply different message type formats
• parse multiple emails in single text file
• strip email signature

Common tasks:

• change message tuples into named tuples
• efficient duplicates check
• restructure app layout