sigbak VS signal-backup

I wrote sigbak and sigtop to export Signal messages. I believe they are reasonably straightforward to use, and have sufficient documentation. And I, too, welcome suggestions for improvements.

I wrote sigtop to export messages from Signal Desktop, and sigbak to export from Signal Android backups. HTH.

If they are not encrypted, I'm curious about the use of sigbak (https://github.com/tbvdm/sigbak).

Also, there are third-party tools that can export from Signal backups. You could try one of those tools and see if it can read the backup successfully. I wrote sigbak, but there are others as well.

AFAIK, signal-back is no longer maintained and doesn't work with current backups. You could use sigbak (which I wrote) to export your conversations to plain text.

You could use sigbak (which I wrote) to export your conversation from a backup to a text file. If you need help, feel free to let me know.

https://github.com/tbvdm/sigbak (last updated December 2021)

I've begun writing sigbak shortly after backups were introduced in Signal and kept it up to date ever since.

I am trying to export my chats in plaintext from android version of signal. This very useful tool (thank you to the author) works but exports all chats in a textfile in a format that I can't organize by contact/phone number. So I would like to get it as a csv/spreadsheet compatible format so I can do searches and isolate just one contact by their number. https://github.com/tbvdm/sigbak

I have written a utility to export conversations from Signal Android backups. Maybe it's useful to you.

https://github.com/mattsta/signal-backup (last updated in 2019)