ofemeteng / WA-Reader

:speech_balloon: WA Reader is a platform to read WhatsApp conversations from email text backups in a easy-to-read UI.

WA Reader

WA Reader is a platform to read WhatsApp conversations from text backups in a easy-to-read UI. Built on python-flask server using dateutil - powerful extension to datetime.

How to use WA Reader

• Create a backup text file (.txt file)of your chat (if you don't have one already)
• Generate backup file on: Android | iPhone | Windows Phone | Nokia S40 | BlackBerry | BlackBerry 10
• Open WA Reader and follow the instructions

Contribute

• For reporting bug about an incorrect file not being processed, open a new issue.
• PRs are always welcome to improve WA-Reader.

Run WA Reader locally

Requires Python3 to run locally. See instructions to setup Python3.

• Clone the project from source

git clone https://github.com/prabhakar267/WA-Reader && cd WA-Reader

• Setup virtual environment

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv venv --python=python3.6
source venv/bin/activate

• Install all dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run server

python app.py

Open localhost:5000

Stargazers over time

Huge shout out to @krzysiekh for creating the awesome logo we currently have.