Facebook Message Export Parser (目前 only for 繁體中文)

Facebook 允許使用者使下載自己的 Message 對話紀錄，在下載後的 zip 檔案中以 html 檔案保存。 這樣方便在瀏覽器中點選檢視，但是很難給程式讀取做為資料分析用。所以，有了專門將對話內容 parser 出來的程式。

由於時間格式不同，原本的版本無法 parser 繁體中文的對話紀錄。

• 原作者時間格式：

dtFormat = '%A, %B %d, %Y at %I:%M%p %Z'
dt.strptime(y.find(class_='meta').string.replace("+01", ""), dtFormat),

• 可 parser 繁體中文格式

dtFormat = "%Y年%m月%d日 %H:%M"
dt.strptime(y.find(class_='meta').string[0:-7], dtFormat), # 用 [0:-7] 去除掉繁體中文無法 parser 的 UTC

目前這個 fork 暫時只讓繁體中文可以被 parser，但是和原作者的功能會衝突，必須靠自行修改程式碼解決，日後會想辦法讓這些功能相容。

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Facebook has a feature that allows users to download a copy of their data as a zip archive containing htm files with their data. The aim of this parser is to take this archive and to extract a user's Facebook Messages from it; to transfer them into a more useful format, as well as performing some analysis to produce interesting data.

Running the Code

The Facebook Export can be downloaded from the Facebook Settings menu.

Run "python fb_parser.py" with the 'messages.htm' file in the same directory to export to JSON as proof of concept.

Dependencies

The code is written in Python 3+. The parser uses BeautifulSoup to do the bulk of the capture from the htm file.

Anaconda Python for scientific computing is a simple and easy way to install all the dependencies for the code, alongside many other useful libraries. It can be downloaded here.