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To clean and convert a whatsapp txt file export to a CSV file
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# To clean and convert a whatsapp txt file export to a CSV file | |
import pandas as pd | |
# read file by lines | |
file_path = "whatsapp.txt" | |
f = open(file_path, 'r') | |
data = f.readlines() | |
f.close() | |
# sanity stats | |
print('num lines: %s' %(len(data))) | |
# parse text and create list of lists structure | |
# remove first whatsapp info message | |
dataset = data[1:] | |
cleaned_data = [] | |
for line in dataset: | |
# grab the info and cut it out | |
date = line.split(",")[0] | |
line2 = line[len(date):] | |
time = line2.split("-")[0][2:] | |
line3 = line2[len(time):] | |
name = line3.split(":")[0][4:] | |
line4 = line3[len(name):] | |
message = line4[6:-1] # strip newline charactor | |
#print(date, time, name, message) | |
cleaned_data.append([date, time, name, message]) | |
# Create the DataFrame | |
df = pd.DataFrame(cleaned_data, columns = ['Date', 'Time', 'Name', 'Message']) | |
# check formatting | |
if 0: | |
print(df.head()) | |
print(df.tail()) | |
# Save it! | |
df.to_csv(r'converted_messages.csv', index=False) | |
Thank you! I believe there are online converters now that should do the same thing
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This is really great. Please can you assist me with a version of this in JavaScript ?