signal-backup
Archive your Signal conversations to immutable storage (project abandoned, but feel free to use as reference if it helps) (by mattsta)
signal-export
Export your Signal chats to markdown files with attachments (by carderne)
| signal-backup | signal-export | |
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| 1 | 20 | |
| 70 | 419 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 7.8 | |
| almost 2 years ago | 5 days ago | |
| HTML | Python | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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signal-backup
Posts with mentions or reviews of signal-backup.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-13.
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Restoring a signal backup from a different number
https://github.com/mattsta/signal-backup (last updated in 2019)
signal-export
Posts with mentions or reviews of signal-export.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-19.
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Moving SIGNAL from iPhone to Android: How to export all chats with media?
question is in the title. I already found out that it is close to impossible to export all chats from iPhone to Android. Could it be possible via https://github.com/carderne/signal-export? Is there any other possibility (even third party app)?
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[OC] Mentions of the word "sleep" in chat conversations with my partner
In exported our conversation on signal via signal export and used d3 to plot the data. Annotations were added in figma.
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Question: Post-Mortem Chats
Use this to try and export the chat into an unencrypted txt
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Using iOS Signal and have a desktop computer? Install and run Signal Desktop - this will let you back up messages from that point forward
This export utility worked for me on Linux (it's also supposed to work with Windows and MacOS but I haven't tested it).
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Does anyone know how to export from the old (pre-2018) Signal Chrome extension?
I found a wonderful repository ( https://github.com/carderne/signal-export/ ) that supports exporting from modern desktop! But, I have some old old old laptops I'd like to repurpose, but I don't want to lose my old old old messages.
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backup Solution for IOS?
I only stumbled across backing up the Desktop Version to markdown files. It worked nicely for me: https://github.com/carderne/signal-export (You will have to use the Terminal though)
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Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup
This [0] (I made this) will let you get your messages out into Markdown/HTML + attachments, but I'm pretty sure there's no way to get them back onto your phone yet.
[0] https://github.com/carderne/signal-export
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iPhone died. Got new iPhone. SOL?
If you have all messages (or at least some that you wanna save) on your desktop, you can run this, I've done it with success. https://github.com/carderne/signal-export
- How do I save a long conversation thread for myself (notes to self)
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Restoring a signal backup from a different number
https://github.com/carderne/signal-export (forked from the previous one, last updated jan 2022)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing signal-backup and signal-export you can also consider the following projects:
signal_for_android_decryption - An (unofficial) tool which decrypts backup files produced by the Signal Android app.
signalbackup-tools - Tool to work with Signal Backup files.
signal-back - Decrypt Signal encrypted backups outside the app
signal-backup-ios - Backup Signal on IOS using Frida
sigbak - Export messages from Signal Android backups
wa-crypt-tools - Manage WhatsApp .crypt12, .crypt14 and .crypt15 files.
signal2html - Export a Signal backup to pretty HTML
signal-backup-decode - Decode Signal Backups
signal-backup-exporter - Python-based Signal app backup exporter.
Signal-iOS - A private messenger for iOS.
signal-backup vs signal_for_android_decryption
signal-export vs signalbackup-tools
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signal-export vs signal-backup-ios
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signal-export vs wa-crypt-tools
signal-export vs signal2html
signal-export vs signal-backup-decode
signal-export vs signal-backup-exporter
signal-export vs sigbak
signal-export vs Signal-iOS
signal-export vs signal_for_android_decryption