whatsappy

Some simple functions to parse whatsapp log files into pandas dataframes.

Installation

Clone this repo and pip install it locally

git clone https://github.com/jeiros/whatsappy.git
cd whatsappy
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install .

alternatively, use the Docker image

docker run -it --rm -p 8888:8888 jeiros/whatsappy /bin/bash -c "jupyter notebook --ip="*" --port=8888 --no-browser --allow-root"

Example

Email yourself a copy of a conversation log file. Save it as a .txt file.

Load it into a pandas DataFrame like this:

from whatsappy import get_all_lines, parse_lines_into_df
lines = get_all_lines('path/to/your/file.txt')
df = parse_lines_into_df(lines)

now go do some analysis.