Skype Exporter

Microsoft Skype, as of 2018, saves user data like past chat messages and call metadata in a local SQLite database, which was fortunate for me when I wanted to export some of that data for long-term storage. This Python script reads a Skype database file and exports all conversations into JSON or HTML.

Since the database schema was haphazardly reverse engineered for this purpose, it is likely to be incomplete. You may need to add more message types and things like emoji IDs for fuller export quality. The HTML renderer includes a couple of Twemoji SVGs for the emoji that showed up in my data.

This is a relatively quick-and-dirty script that was not extensively tested. Use at your own risk.

Usage

usage: skype_exporter.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [-l LANGUAGE] [-f FORMAT] file positional arguments: file The file name of the Skype database to export options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT The output directory for the exported files (defaults to current working directory) -l LANGUAGE, --language LANGUAGE The language shorthand to use for exported HTML versions (defaults to "en") -f FORMAT, --format FORMAT The format for the exported files ("html" or "json", defaults to "html")

License

Skype Exporter (c) 2018 Julian Fietkau

Licensed under the ISC. See LICENSE for details.