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+# Whatsapp-Chat-Exporter
+A Whatsapp database parser that will give you the history of your Whatsapp conversations in HTML and JSON  
+**If you plan to uninstall WhatsApp or delete your WhatsApp account, please make a backup of your WhatsApp database. You may want to use this exporter again on the same database in the future as the exporter develops**
+
+# Usage
+First, clone this repo, and copy all py and html files to a working directory if you want to do so.
+```shell
+git clone https://github.com/KnugiHK/Whatsapp-Chat-Exporter.git
+```
+Then, ready your WhatsApp database, place them in the root of working directory.
+* For Android, it is called msgstore.db. If you want name of your contacts, get the contact database, which is called wa.db.
+* For iPhone, it is called 7c7fba66680ef796b916b067077cc246adacf01d (YES, a hash).
+
+Next, ready your media folder, place it in the root of working directory.
+* For Android, copy the WhatsApp directory from your phone directly.
+* For iPhone, run the extract_iphone_media.py, and you will get a folder called Message.
+```
+python extract_iphone_media.py "C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\[device id]"
+```
+And now, you should have something like this:
+
+![Folder structure](imgs/structure.png)
+
+Last, run the script regarding the type of phone.
+```
+python extract.py & :: Android
+python extract_iphone.py & :: iPhone
+```
+And you will get these:
+#### Private Message
+![Private Message](imgs/pm.png)
+
+#### Group Message
+![Group Message](imgs/group.png)