sigbak VS sigtop

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AFAIK, signal-back is no longer maintained and doesn't work with current backups.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

It's harder on Signal but there are tools to do it on desktop.

https://github.com/tbvdm/sigtop

You can use SigTop to create a backup of all message history from Signal Desktop though. There is no way to restore the messages to your android phone though.

Yes. You can make a backup on android. You can probably also do so on MacOS though without having to buy an android phone. Check out SigTop. I am checking if this works for myself right now

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.

You might also be interested in sigtop, a utility I wrote. It probably is a much simpler solution to your problem.

I wrote a utility to export messages etc. from Signal Desktop. You may find it useful.

I have written sigbak (for Signal Android backups) and sigtop (for Signal Desktop) for that purpose.

If that doesn't help, it would be interesting to see if the missing messages exist in the Signal Desktop database. You could use sigtop for this. After you've built it, run this: