This tool takes the XML output file from the Android SMS Backup and Restore Tool and generates a set of Markdown files and corresponding attachment files on your filesystem.
See the docs\guide.md for more information.
The code in this repo relies heavily on my message_md classes which contain generic Message, Person, Group and other classes and the methods to convert messages to Markdown files. Be sure to read the docs for that repo first. I abstracted them from the older sister (first child) tool signal_md.
Make sure to install libxml e.g. sudo apt-get install python-lxml
If that gave an issue, I also had to pip install --upgrade lxmls
If your name is bob and you want to convert all messages since 1990-01-01
python3 sms_backup_md.py -m bob -c ../../dev-output/config -f ../../sms/sms-20240505003555.xml -o ../../dev-output -d -b 1990-01-01Apache License 2.0