WhatsApp Images Extractor
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Description:
This script will go through a WhatsApp file backup and extracts the name of the
pictures present. Then it will walks through the given directory and move the
previously found images to a new location. With --help, you can get the
purpose of the script as well as the options it accepts.
Example:
>>> python3 imagesExtractor.py -i "WhatsApp Chat with Bob.txt" -f "WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Images"
I had the idea of this script because I wanted to extract the pictures associated with a given chat from the Images folder where WhatsApp stores the received and sent medias. Note that there are some limitation as WhatsApp will generate a backup with media limited to 10k messages or 29MB of attachments, as the feature is meant to export messages by email.