make a book from imessages
This is a tool to make a book out of a given iMessage conversation. To use it, you need either an iPhone backup or a Mac that holds all the messages you want included. To use the tool, clone the repo and run:
cargo run -- --help
The code is in pretty rough shape, but it should do the job. Let me know if you run into any issues.
An example of the output can be seen in the example-output directory.
Not a rust user, but got this:
% cargo --version
cargo 1.76.0
% cargo run -- --help
Compiling message-book v0.1.0 (/Users/---/github/message-book)
error: this file contains an unclosed delimiter
--> src/main.rs:184:3
|
55 | fn iter_messages(db_path: &PathBuf, chat_identifier: &str, output_dir: &PathBuf) -> Result<(), TableError> {
| - unclosed delimiter
...
137 | match msg.gen_text(&db) {
| - this delimiter might not be properly closed...
...
148 | }
| - ...as it matches this but it has different indentation
...
184 | }
| ^
error: could not compile `message-book` (bin "message-book") due to 1 previous errorapparently there are existing examples like: https://github.com/pbeck/whatsbook
It's nice to have a text output of messages but it would be awesome if images can be incorporated
Dear Ben!
Thanks for this project, it looks great! I just tried to run it on a backup of my iPhone and got the following error message:
➜ message-book git:(main) ✗ cargo run -- -i ./backup XXXXXXXXXX'
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.13s
Running `target/debug/message-book -i ./backup XXXXXXXXXX`
Found chat Chat { rowid: 996, chat_identifier: "XXXXXXXXXX", service_name: Some("SMS"), display_name: Some("") }
Found chat Chat { rowid: 997, chat_identifier: "XXXXXXXXXX", service_name: Some("iMessage"), display_name: Some("") }
Starting chapter ch-2015-10
Starting chapter ch-2015-11
Starting chapter ch-2015-12
Starting chapter ch-2016-01
Starting chapter ch-2016-02
thread 'main' panicked at src/main.rs:137:27:
failed to generate message: MissingData
stack backtrace:
0: rust_begin_unwind
at /rustc/07dca489ac2d933c78d3c5158e3f43beefeb02ce/library/std/src/panicking.rs:645:5
1: core::panicking::panic_fmt
at /rustc/07dca489ac2d933c78d3c5158e3f43beefeb02ce/library/core/src/panicking.rs:72:14
2: core::result::unwrap_failed
at /rustc/07dca489ac2d933c78d3c5158e3f43beefeb02ce/library/core/src/result.rs:1649:5
3: core::result::Result<T,E>::expect
at /rustc/07dca489ac2d933c78d3c5158e3f43beefeb02ce/library/core/src/result.rs:1030:23
4: message_book::iter_messages
at ./src/main.rs:137:9
5: message_book::main
at ./src/main.rs:179:5
6: core::ops::function::FnOnce::call_once
at /rustc/07dca489ac2d933c78d3c5158e3f43beefeb02ce/library/core/src/ops/function.rs:250:5
note: Some details are omitted, run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=full` for a verbose backtrace.
Any idea how to fix it?
Thank you
Best
Alexandre
Hi bkettle -
Thanks so much for your blog post and code repository work. I've successfully generated the output folder with tex files. Do I need to install LaTex and xelatex to generate the final PDF?
In particular, the message : "https://citymapper.com/directions?endcoord=51.250276,6.764559&endname=Position%20actuelle&endaddress=Golzheim&isCurrentLocation=1&referrer=citymapper-messages" makes the process crash.
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