sigbak VS signal-message-exporter

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AFAIK, signal-back is no longer maintained and doesn't work with current backups.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

here's a repo with this goal in mind. i haven't contributed in a while, but it's still actively developed and they write good code https://github.com/alexlance/signal-message-exporter thank u/alexlance & co in the usual kinds of ways.

But, the note also only concerns my project's built-in XML export function, not the one used in the instructions you link. I do plan on getting the XML export function working again in the near future, but for now, if you have a problem you should really open an issue at https://github.com/alexlance/signal-message-exporter/issues.

At the very least there are tools that allow you decrypt your chat backups and export them in JSON. So, even if importing the backup doesn't work you still have access to your message history, which is better that nothing.

Go to https://github.com/alexlance/signal-message-exporter click the green code button at the top and download zip, extract it to desktop.