sigbak VS signal-export

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AFAIK, signal-back is no longer maintained and doesn't work with current backups.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

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)?

In exported our conversation on signal via signal export and used d3 to plot the data. Annotations were added in figma.

Use this to try and export the chat into an unencrypted txt

This export utility worked for me on Linux (it's also supposed to work with Windows and MacOS but I haven't tested it).

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.

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)

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

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

https://github.com/carderne/signal-export (forked from the previous one, last updated jan 2022)