WhatsApp Chat History parser for Node.js
var parser = require('node-whatsapp-parser');
parser
.parseFile('whatsapp-chat-archive.txt')
.then((messages) => {
// process messages
});
});
The output is a list of messages containing the date, author and content.
[{
date: Wed Jan 06 2016 12:30:04 GMT+0100 (CET), // date-object
author: 'Niels Dequeker',
content: 'This is a test message'
}, {
date: Fri Jan 22 2016 20:36:43 GMT+0100 (CET), // date-object
author: 'Jane Doe',
content: 'This is a test reply'
}]
This module is used in the node-whatsapp-expenses module to calculate expenses for the authors, grouped by month.