keybase-export

A tool to export keybase chats.

Features

• Configuration file
• Export to jsonl (json lines)
• Export to SQLite
• Export to ElasticSearch
• Watcher for new messages
• Attachment downloading
• Incremental export

Configuration

See config.example.json for a config example and config.ts for the config schema.

Usage

1. Install Node.js.

2. Clone the repository from Github and run the installation commands:

git clone https://github.com/Bannerets/keybase-export.git
cd keybase-export
npm install
npm run build

3. Copy config.example.json to config.json and edit it. At least, chats, username and paperkey should be replaced.

4. Launch:

$ ./bin/keybase-export
# or: $ node dist

Optionally, the configuration file can be passed as a cli argument:

$ ./bin/keybase-export config-2.json

Debug mode: DEBUG=keybase-export* ./bin/keybase-export

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Another way to install is via NPM (not recommended, the version might be outdated):

npm install -g keybase-export
# local installation: $ npm install keybase-export

And launch:

$ keybase-export [<config>]