Extract just the raw chat history (no names, dates, files etc) for text analysis about fbchat-archive-parser

[ownaginatious]

Hi there!

Someone asked me about this before and I'm rather hesitant to add it in since it's a fairly niche feature. To be honest, unless you're doing text mining in super high volume or on a microcontroller, I can't see how reducing the size of the output will be a huge gain.

You can achieve what you're asking fairly easily with the CSV output in Python

fbcap messages messages.htm -f csv > my_message_output.csv

import csv

with open('./my_message_output.csv', 'r') as f:
    for row in csv.reader(f):
        print(row[-1])

[wadbr]

Oh I didnt even think about csv! Thank you, this would be very helpful!

About the file size, my normal text output is around 200mb, I'm using SPMF for data minning, and it is a real pain to work with in regards to larger files like this, a 200mb file requires around 30gigs of memory (which I think is a bug but I'm not versed in Java to be able to dig into it) so that was why I was looking to reduce my file size.

[ownaginatious]

Closing as this project is being deprecated.