whatsapp-chat-parser

Warning

This script was written for a course to learn Ruby. For real usecases, you should look at more elaborate/robust implementations like this or this!

Note

Media and attachments are not supported!

Process Whatsapp chat exports programmatically with ruby.

Usage

1. Export your Whatsapp chat without media
   • See Whatsapp FAQ
2. Place the resulting .txt file in the same folder as this README.md
3. Make sure ruby version >=3 is installed
   • Use the provides nix flake if you can
4. Create your own driver file (see main.rb for reference usage)

# Define process lambda function.
process = lambda do |msg|
    author  = msg[:author]
    date    = msg[:date]
    content = msg[:content]
    # Do whatever you want with this.
end

# Open file and create parser.
file = File.readlines('input.txt', chomp: true)
parser = Parser.new(file, process_read_fn)

# Start parsing!
parser.parse()

# Execute the script.
ruby your_file.rb

License

MIT License © 2023-Present marcelhas