Wazza
Wazza is a utility to parse whatsapp backup files to csv or json file formats.
It supports csv and json file formats.
** only tested for group backups **
How to create a Whatsapp backup.
- From the Whatsapp mobile app, open a group
Example, exporting to csv:
wazza -f csv _chat.txt > export.csv
where _chat.txt
is the file or path to the backup file.
Example exporting to json:
wazza -f json _chat.txt > export.json
Example exporting date/time with format like "Jul 5th 19"
wazza -f csv -d "MMM Do YY"_chat.txt > export.json
Other date format examples:
- "MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a" converts to "July 5th 2019, 4:19:57 am"
- "dddd" converts to "Friday"
- "MMM Do YY" converts to "Jul 5th 19"
- "YYYY [escaped] YYYY" converts to "2019 escaped 2019"
Internally Wazza uses momentjs to format dates,
for complete list of formats see https://momentjs.com format() function.