bepaald/signalbackup-tools
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Tool to work with Signal Backup files.
15 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2021-01-07 · latest 2026-10-31
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No. Turn on backups. Write the encryption key somewhere safe. Copy the backup off your phone and use https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools to extract everything.
comment by amiga386 · 2026-10-31 · in Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable -
…data out is via some random github project to extract operate on the encrypted backup from android: https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools
comment by digiown · 2026-01-25 · in BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp -
…in Timelinize. > Support for importing Polarsteps trips, and for importing Signal backups (e.g. via https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools ) would be nice! Agreed! I played with Signal exports for a while but the format changed…
comment by mholt · 2025-10-07 · in Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally -
…all of them. - Support for importing Polarsteps trips, and for importing Signal backups (e.g. via https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools ) would be nice!
comment by codethief · 2025-10-07 · in Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally -
…to extract media from my family group chats and upload them to my immich server via their CLI. [1] https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools
comment by greysonp · 2025-09-09 · in Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management -
…& read new and old backups offline (on my desktop), similar to what [0] provides right now. [0]: https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools [1]: EDIT: Actually, it seems like the new cloud backup feature doesn't support incremental…
comment by codethief · 2025-09-08 · in Signal Secure Backups -
…you could register your old phone under? Finally, once you have the backup, use something like https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools to merge your old phone's backup with your current phone's backup, and then reinstall Signal on…
comment by codethief · 2025-09-08 · in Signal Secure Backups -
…and back on a new phone. The file is encrypted with the passcode and the database can be extracted. https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools
comment by poisonborz · 2025-09-08 · in Signal Secure Backups -
…thanks to reverse engineering efforts you can now do pretty much whatever you want with them: https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools
comment by noname120 · 2024-08-28 · in Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker -
I just do a research and there is a GitHub repo. Will try it later. https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools
comment by quyleanh · 2024-03-08 · in Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages -
Not a solution for the average user, but this works: https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools
comment by unicornporn · 2021-01-08 · in Signal WhatsApp Chats Import -
Your only option is to export the database from the desktop app and use third party tools like https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools to decrypt the backup. However in my experience this backup does not include all of your messages…
comment by CDSlice · 2021-01-07 · in Poll: Switching from WhatsApp