Little CLI utility for parsing Google Hanougts Takeout json data.
Build with stack install. This will install a system-wide binary
hangouts-reader if your stack .bin directory is on the
$PATH. Otherwise refer to stack documentation.
The simplest way to use this is to pipe in the json data:
cat Hangouts.json | hangouts-reader | lessYou can also store the processed output in a file for faster access:
cat Hangouts.json | hangouts-reader > hangouts-processed-data.txtThe application provides several output formats listed below.
The output format is "line-friendly" so you can use grep, awk or
whatever else for filtering. Fields are separated by tabs. It is
reasonably fast to just parse everything everytime (the parsed output
is about 10 times smaller than the input file).
Output is prefixed with a list of all conversations and participants with the format
conversationId participant1, participant2, ...
followed by an empty line. Then follows the conversation data (messages). The messages printed are in the format:
conversationId time author message
They are grouped by conversation and ordered by message time from the oldest message per conversation at the top. The conversatiosn are in no particular order.
The helper script parse.sh can be used to operate on the transformed
data. The first argument is name of the person in the conversation
(first conversation with this name will be picked), the second is the
data file. For example, if you want to print your conversation with
Emily, use it as so:
./parse.sh Emily hangouts-processed-data.txtThis assumes there is only one conversation where Emily is present, otherwise it picks the first one.