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WhatsApp lets you export chats as txt, but I guess that's lossy.. e.g. I'm not sure the emojis will be there. Surely no attachments or voice messages. As for e

WhatsApp lets you export chats as txt, but I guess that's lossy.. e.g. I'm not sure the emojis will be there. Surely no attachments or voice messages. As for extracting from the backup DB, they'll be encrypted..

andyjohnson0 3y ago
Whatsapp on Android lets you export a chat with or without media (images etc), but it limits the number of messages. With media you get the last 10k messgaes, and without you get the last 40k. Emojis are preserved though. See https://faq.whatsapp.com/1180414079177245/?cms_platform=android https://faq.whatsapp.com/1180414079177245/?cms_platform=andr... The limits are supposedly due to email size limits but, as they also apply when exporting to non-email endpoints like Google Drive, I suspect they're more to do with preventing people from moving their chats to other services. And yes, the db is encrypted.
- nolongerthere 3y ago
  I wonder if those limits will be eased with the new EU regulations…
  - Rygian 3y ago
    GDPR is already 6 years old.
adastral 3y ago
> they'll be encrypted Since some months (years?) ago, WhatsApp lets you set up your own encryption password for the DB backup. I set one up and used https://github.com/ElDavoo/wa-crypt-tools https://github.com/ElDavoo/wa-crypt-tools to get access to the decrypted SQLite and run some analytics over my messages :)