Show HN: WhatsBook, archive your whatsApp chats in print using python and LaTeX (thevelop.nl)

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Author here:

Would love to hear the HN thoughts on the project and I'll check in now and then to answer any questions!

code: https://github.com/theveloped/WhatsBook

The result is neat. Unfortunately since whatsapp refuses to provide an API, it is very cumbersome to export each chat sessions manually. Have you found a workaround for this?

theveloped 9y ago ↗

Most definetely! As written in the post there is a "new" (don't know how new) feature that let's you export a single chat conversation. Within the chat you can select export chat under options.

snowpanda 9y ago ↗

Would love to have this for Telegram secret chats.

theveloped 9y ago ↗

Haha guess you found the end to end-to-end encryption ;)

fiatjaf 9y ago ↗

Will this .tex file contain all the images? What happens if an image is missing? What about audio and video?

theveloped 9y ago ↗

For now only still images are supported.

These will be checked for availability and if so a reference to them is added in the .tex file. On building the PDF using LaTeX the referenced images will be included.