markdawson/explore-messages

Explore Messages

1. To explore your messages download your Facebook data by going to https://www.facebook.com/settings and exporting your data.

2. You will recieve a zip file called facebook-<username>. Unzip that file to create a new folder of the same name: facebook-<username>

3. Navigate inside that folder.

   If you type ls You should see folders called html, photos, and videos as well as a file called index.html

4. Download this repository.

   git clone https://github.com/markdawson/explore-messages.git

5. Enter the cloned directory

   cd explore-messages

6. Create a virtualenv running python 2

   virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 venv

7. Activate it

   source venv/bin/activate

8. Now start up the script:

   source start.sh

   It will install dependencies.

9. Now you can use any of the following commands:

Command	Description
people()	Gives a list of all the people you've had conversations wtih
convosWith(name)	Input a string, and for all names matching your srting, you will see all the conversations you've had with people matching the string
messagesWith(name)	input a persons name and view all messages just between you and that person, also creates a new html file with all messages with that person. Note: if there are multiple matches for your input - say two people with the same first name - it will just pick one.
negativeWith(name)	View negative messages with someone
positiveWith(name)	View position message with someone

Run python -i soup.py if you exit the python shell and want to re-enter it