Chatbook project

This parses chat history logs from the Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and LINE chat platforms and compiles into tex files to make a book.

This was for a personal project and personal infos have been removed. Do not expect it to work without modifications.

Pretty much based off and forked from https://medium.com/@pbeck/whatsapp-books-a-hacker-s-guide-edbb397e0bee.

FIRST

For Facebook Messenger chats

• Perform a full Facebook data export and look for the messages folder.

• Run the script in the fb folder.

For WhatsApp chats

• Perform a message export in the app to a text file. This format is what was orignally natively supported in the forked code.

For LINE chats

• Perform a database dump of the appdata from the iPhone itself.

• Run the Python scripts A to D in order to download sticker, sticker icons and to extract the messages.

• There's some manual processing involved here to get sticker icons working properly here; I couldn't find an automated way.

THEN

• Run interleave_fb_line_whatsapp.py to merge all chats into one file.

FINALLY

• Run _whatsbook/wa2latex.py to generate a XeLaTeX file, whatsbook-folio.tex.

• Compile whatsbook.tex.

• Make a cover in InDesign.

• I manufactured the book on Blurb.