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Turns an iMessage conversation from an iPhone backup into an HTML transcript. MIT license.
# Converts an iPhone SMS.db file into HTML
# Mac: Library > Application Support > MobileSync > Backup
# Windows: C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
# Find the folder with the most recently modified date and open it.
# Locate the 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 file and copy it to the location of this script.
# Rename the file to "db.sqlite"
# Replace HANDLE_GOES_HERE with the phone number/etc identifying the other party in the DB.
# Run the script.
require "sqlite3"
db = SQLite3::Database.new "db.sqlite"
puts "Loading messages..."
messages = []
db.execute( "SELECT datetime(message.date, 'unixepoch', '+31 years', '-6 hours'), handle.id, is_from_me, message.text FROM message, handle WHERE message.handle_id = handle.ROWID AND handle.id = 'HANDLE_GOES_HERE';" ) do |row|
puts row.inspect
msg = {
date: row[0],
who: if row[2] == 1 then 'Me' else 'Them' end,
text: row[3]
}
puts "<#{msg[:who]}>\t#{msg[:text]}"
messages.push(msg)
end
puts "Writing to file..."
f = File.open("log.html", "w")
f.write('<!DOCTYPE html>')
f.write('<html><head>')
f.write('<meta charset="utf-8">')
f.write('<title>iMessage Transcript</title>')
f.write('<style>')
f.write('body { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.1; width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; }')
f.write('.msg { margin: 16px 0; }')
f.write('.who { display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; }')
f.write('.text { display: block; margin-left: 15px; }')
f.write('.Matt { color: #2890e2 }')
f.write('.Liz { color: #dd41ca }')
f.write('</style>')
f.write('</head><body>')
messages.each do |msg|
f.write('<div class="msg">')
f.write("<span class='who #{msg[:who]}'>&lt;#{msg[:who]}&gt;</span> <span class='text'>#{msg[:text]}</span>\n")
f.write('</div>')
end
f.write('</body></html>')
f.close
puts "Done!"
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