sigbak VS signal-back

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AFAIK, signal-back is no longer maintained and doesn't work with current backups.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.

All I know of is signal back ( https://github.com/xeals/signal-back ) but I haven't been able to install and use this yet due to my complete lack of programming knowledge. Even the Github instructions don't make sense to me...

Once you figured out how this works, tell me: https://github.com/xeals/signal-back

https://www.yoranbrondsema.com/post/the-guide-to-extracting-statistics-from-your-signal-conversations/ https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/irbxii/how_can_i_export_and_save_signal_chats/ https://rado0z.github.io/Decrypt_Android_Database http://jhnet.co.uk/articles/signal_backups https://pypi.org/project/signal2html/ https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/kx31hw/signalbackup_a_tool_to_save_your_signal/ https://github.com/manwefm/signal-backup https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools https://gitlab.com/splatops/cntn-signalbackup-tools https://github.com/xeals/signal-back https://github.com/pajowu/signal-backup-decode https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/cyyncx/application_to_open_signal_backups_on_windows/ https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/8mfawf/comment/e84rkia/ https://www.incredigeek.com/home/extract-encrypted-signal-backup/ https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/n3mwfx/backup_file/ https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/fxyowe/decrypting_backup_for_import_to_android_messages/ https://kabanashvili.com/blog/post/backup-and-decrypt-signal_1f91be7ok9jvmqrf

A number of users have raised the issue on github: https://github.com/xeals/signal-back/issues/77

Hey there! Can you please link the rust tool you mentioned? I'm only aware of this go tool: https://github.com/xeals/signal-back

If your messages are Signal-encrypted, you can use the software on https://github.com/xeals/signal-back to export your encrypted messages as SMS, which you can then get as a PDF more easily.

Is this it?

I've tried using Signal Back to format my backup file into a format that I can read and use.