Contact Details Not Resolving, Phone Number Only

[DevMan01]

When I run:
imessage-exporter -f html -o /Users/...

The tool successully exports and builds the export, with one exception - All of HTML files, and chat mentions are titled or addressed using individuals phone numbers, and not their contact name in the MacOS Contacts.

Is this a bug? User error? Or a feature that needs to be developed?

[ReagentX]

This software interacts with the iMessage database only; contacts are not stored inside of it. This tool only targets features that are directly related to the iMessage tables.

[paulasyn]

@DevMan01 not really a direct solution but you can try making this a script to run through all your conversations with numbers and possibly have success with this?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/72652/contacts-app-command-line-interface

[PhilMac]

Such an ability would make this tool so much more useful to me—I get that this software itself will only access the iMessage database, but if someone were to write a script using the tool @paulasyn mentioned it would be awesome. (A pity I don't have the skills to do it myself!)