ReagentX/imessage-exporter
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Export iMessage data + run iMessage Diagnostics
18 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 5 stories, 13 comments · first 2023-01-10 · latest 2026-01-09
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Rust Crate for iMessage Database Operationstory by RyanZhuuuu · 2026-01-09 · 0 comments
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What's wrong with `imessage-exporter`? https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
comment by css · 2025-12-13 · in Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help -
…don't, so all of my testing in the VSCode shell "hid" the bug that other shells exposed. [0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/issues/314#iss...
comment by css · 2025-06-06 · in Too Many Open Files -
…proto files are [1] [2]. [0]: https://github.com/trymoose/handwriting2svg/blob/0eb56cf4582... [1]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/beeb853b2... [2]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/beeb853b2...
comment by css · 2025-02-04 · in Reverse Engineering Apple's typedstream Format -
…support for the undocumented TypedStream-stored text data, you can use my open source software: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
comment by css · 2024-11-04 · in Show HN: Extract iMessage Attachments and Links into Organized Folders -
…[2], including edited messages, app messages, reactions, text range formatting, and threads. [0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/releases/tag/2... [1]: https://docs.rs/imessage-database/latest/imessage_database/u... [2]:…
comment by css · 2024-08-07 · in Show HN: iMessage-exporter: a comprehensive CLI app and library -
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Show HN: iMessage-exporter: a comprehensive CLI app and librarystory by css · 2024-08-07 · 4 comments
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Awesome to see someone using my library [0] in the wild! Very cool use case. [0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
comment by css · 2024-03-07 · in Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages -
…problem. I am always looking for edge cases to test, if you have time would you mind checking if https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter works for you and if it crashes in that spot?
comment by css · 2024-01-05 · in Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript -
If you have a mac there’s an open source project that exports iMessage messages: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
comment by d3nj4l · 2023-12-22 · in Beeper – Moving Forward -
I wrote a tool for this: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
comment by css · 2023-12-06 · in Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android -
…a message. The content is stored in a binary blob in a different column, which I parse like this: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/c73bc4d66...
comment by css · 2023-08-01 · in Show HN: imessage-exporter, a CLI app and library -
The database file is the same across both platforms, you just need to choose the right path: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/c73bc4d66... You can get this file from an unencrypted iOS backup:…
comment by css · 2023-08-01 · in Show HN: imessage-exporter, a CLI app and library -
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Show HN: imessage-exporter, a CLI app and librarystory by css · 2023-08-01 · 43 comments
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…lost unless you take extra steps. Messages: if you are comfortable with it, use imessage-exporter ( https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter ) on your Mac to export your messages to disk. Copy to new machine. Validate you got what you…
comment by daggersandscars · 2023-07-11 · in iQuit: My Hellish Attempt to Leave Apple’s Walled Garden -
If anyone ever wanted to do something similar for iMessage data, I built a similar tool for that: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter
comment by css · 2023-03-26 · in Show HN: Apple Notes Liberator – Extract Notes.app Data and Save It as JSON -
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imessage-exporter: Export macOS iMessage data and run iMessage diagnosticsstory by miles · 2023-01-11 · 0 comments
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Show HN: iMessage-exporter, a full-featured CLI app and librarystory by css · 2023-01-10 · 2 comments