snaparser

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Snaparser

Snaparser parses snapchat chat history json files to human friendly format. By default, the parsed chat history is printed to stdout.

Installation

$ go install github.com/vanillaiice/snaparser/cmd/snaparser@latest

Usage

To download your chat history data, follow the guide available on snapchat's website. You can then do the following:

# Generic Usage
$ snaparser [global options] command [command options] 

# Extract chats only with user 'johndoe' and write chats to file
$ snaparser -u johndoe -f chat_history.json -w

# Extract chats only with user 'janedoe', read chat history file from stdin,
# and print to Stdout
$ cat chat_history.json | snaparser -u janedoe

# Extract all chats and pipe output to more
$ snaparser -f chat_history.json | more

Flags

NAME:
   snaparser - parse snapchat chat history to human friendly format

USAGE:
   snaparser [global options] command [command options] 

VERSION:
   v0.1.4

AUTHOR:
   vanillaiice <vanillaiice1@proton.me>

COMMANDS:
   help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --file FILE, -f FILE                                  read chats from FILE (use '-' for stdin)
   --directory DIRECTORY, -d DIRECTORY, --dir DIRECTORY  write parsed chats to DIRECTORY
   --user value, -u value                                only extract chat with user
   --write, -w                                           write parsed chats to disk (default: false)
   --create, -c                                          create directory if it does not exist (default: false)
   --color, -l                                           write colored output (default: false)
   --help, -h                                            show help
   --version, -v                                         print the version

Author

vanillaiice

License

BSD-3-Clause

Documentation

Index

• Constants
• Variables

Constants

const Empty = ""

Empty represents an empty string

const MediaTypeText = "TEXT"

MediaTypeText represents a media that is text

const Stdin = "-"

Stdin represents receiving input from standard input

Variables

var ErrNoInput = errors.New("no input file provided")

ErrNoInput means that no snapchat chat history file was provided

var ParseCommand = &cli.Command{
	Flags: flags,
	Action: func(ctx *cli.Context) error {
		parseFlags := &parseFlags{
			file:      ctx.String("file"),
			dir:       ctx.Path("dir"),
			user:      ctx.String("user"),
			write:     ctx.Bool("write"),
			create:    ctx.Bool("create"),
			withColor: ctx.Bool("color"),
		}

		return parseFunc(parseFlags)
	},
}

ParseCommand is a cli command that parses snapchat chat history