SkyNinja (/skˈaɪ ˈnɪn.dʒə/
) is a tool for exporting and importing Skype conversations. The application is the successor of Skype Historian.
Though the tool is not updated for a long time please feel free to contact me should you need any missing feature – I'll try to add it for you if I have time.
- Exporting of chat messages.
- Date and time filtering.
- Grouping by conversation participants and message date.
- Saving to plain text files.
- Creating ZIP archive "on the fly".
- Verify that the project requires .NET Framework 4.5.
- Verify that namespace starts with
SkyNinja
. - Verify that all warnings are treated as errors.
- Verify that output directory is set to
..\Release
(..\Debug
). - Verify that Code Analysis is turned on for all configurations.
- Verify that SkyNinja Ruleset is chosen for all configurations.
- Verify that the assembly is signed with the
SkyNinja.pfx
. - Verify that
SkyNinja.pfx
is added as a link (not a copy). - Verify that unused references are removed.
- Verify
AssemblyInfo.cs
.
cli -i <uri> -o <uri> [-g <name>...] [-f <name>] [--time-from <time>] [--time-to <time>]
-i --input <uri> Input URI.
-o --output <uri> Output URI.
-g --grouper <name>... Groupers [default: participants].
-f --file-system <name> Target file system [default: usual].
--time-from <time> Include only messages sent after the specified time.
--time-to <time> Include only messages sent before the specified time.
Locates Skype database by Skype ID (user name).
Cli
-i skypeid://your_skype_name
-o plain://D:\Logs
-g year-month -g participants
Locates Skype database by path.
Cli
-i skypedb://C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Skype\user\main.db
-o plain://D:\Logs
-g year-month -g participants
Plain text files (*.txt).
Cli
-i skypeid://your_skype_name
-o plain://D:\Logs
-g year-month -g participants
Include only messages sent after of before the specified time. Accepted formats are UNIX timestamp and dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss
(UTC).
Cli
-i skypeid://your_skype_name
-o plain://D:\Logs
--time-from "01-01-2014 00:05:33"
--time-to "01-02-2014 00:05:53"
Grouper defines how to group all messages in output.
The following groupers are available so far:
participants
year-month
day
One can specify several groupers. In this case they will be applied one by one.
Cli
-i skypeid://your_skype_name
-o plain://D:\Logs
-g year-month -g day -g participants
«File system» is an abstraction of a storage.
Messages are grouped into files and files are grouped into folders.
Same as usual one but compressed into a ZIP archive «on-the-fly».
Cli
-i skypeid://your_skype_name
-o plain://D:\Logs.zip
-f zip
ZIP file name encoding can also be specified in order to be able open an archive with Windows Explorer.
.\Cli
-i skypeid://your_skype_name
-o plain://D:\Logs.zip?zipEntryEncoding=CP866
-f zip
-g year-month -g day -g participants