chat_stat

Usage

Output HTML file will be found in output/

$ python src/core.py <path to message history file> <(Optional) additional paths to message history files...>

Example for parsing single file:

$ python src/core.py

You can parse multiple files, as well as files from different messaging services:

$ python src/core.py M data/message-1.json data/message-2.json data/result.json

Installation

First, create a virtual environment and enter it to isolate 3rd party packages for this program. There are multiple ways to do this.

$ python -m venv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate

Install the required packages in requirements.txt, and you're done!

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

How to Use

To download Facebook Messenger chat history, go to https://www.facebook.com/dyi and request a copy of your messages in JSON format. It can take several hours before you can download your data.