Getting your data

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As of now, only WhatsApp and Signal chats are supported.

Steps to export a WhatsApp chat:

• Go to the app
• Go to Settings/Chats/Chat History
• Tap Export chat
• Select the chat you want to export

Steps to export a Signal chat (from Signal-Desktop):

• Open a Terminal
• Run pip install signal-export (This will install signal-export on your computer)
• Run sigexport ~/signal-chats (This saves the Signal chats in ~/signal-chats)

Parsing the chatfile

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The following code uses the WhatsAppParser module to:

• Read a chatfile
• Infer its datetime format
• Parse its content into a DataFrame
• Add additonal metadata columns

from chatminer.chatparsers import WhatsAppParser

parser = WhatsAppParser(FILEPATH)
parser.parse_file_into_df()
print(parser.df.describe())

Creating Visualizations

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Sunburst Chart

import chatminer.visualizations as vis
vis.sunburst(parser.df)

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Wordcloud

import chatminer.visualizations as vis
stopwords = ['media', 'omitted', 'missed', 'voice', 'call']
vis.wordcloud(parser.df, stopwords)