chat log parser

06
Jul
2018

Day Grouping in the Chat Log Parser!

Finally, I’ve added a feature to my chat log parser to group messages by day. It’s something I’ve wanted to be able to do for a while now. This took a bit of work to add a new data structure and update the HTML Jinja2 templates. But now the base of it is done and if I want, I can customise the styles.

Screenshot of Chat Log with day grouping

Oh hey Sunny!

Originally, I tried to do the day grouping inside the Jinja2 templates, but this proved rather difficult – I ended up spending hours in the library trying to work out nested loops inside a templating language. Eventually, I realised I should perform the day grouping on the data structure instead, so I just loop over each day, then created the minute bundles inside.

Technical Info!

Creating the day grouping in the ChatLog data structure turned out to be surprisingly easy:

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03
Sep
2017

Short Project: Chat Log Parser

I’m using Viber to communicate with someone, and we have many chats. So I looked into Viber’s chat backup capability. I found that Viber has two backups — one that you can restore, and one that you can email. It turns out that the email-able backup is actually in CSV. And so I realised I could parse it very easily with Python; and use a templating module such as Jinja2 or Mako, format it into an easy to read HTML page.

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Posted by Anthony in chat log parser