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https://github.com/pglass/sms-backup
Some analysis of SMS/MMS messages
https://github.com/pglass/sms-backup
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Some analysis of SMS/MMS messages
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pglass/sms-backup
- Owner: pglass
- Created: 2018-01-21T03:59:49.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-01-21T04:06:20.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-06T05:12:56.792Z (about 2 months ago)
- Language: Go
- Size: 9.77 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
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- Readme: README.md
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README
Overview
--------
This is some code to analyze an backup of SMS/MMS messages taken by the SMS
Backup and Restore app for Android.
It can analyze a single conversation and output plots for a few different things:
- Time series of messages sent per day
- Time series of messages sent per week
- Histogram of incoming message lengths
- Histogram of outgoing message lengths
- Scatterplot over time, plotting the hour of day when messages are sent
Other things / TODO
-------------------
- How many emojis or pictures used?
- Most common words and phrases
- Number of exclamations? Number of questions?
Setup
-----
This is written in Go.
I use [glide](https://github.com/Masterminds/glide) to manager go dependencies.
Glide fetches your dependencies into the vendor directory (so you do not have
to commit the vendor directory)
```bash
$ glide install
```
### Build the code
Use the Makefile to build the code:
```bash
$ make main
```
This outputs an executable called `main`:
```bash
$ ./main -h
Usage of ./main:
-f string
The XML file containing your SMS backups
-n string
My phone number. Used to determine if MMS messages are incoming
-o string
The output image (default "out.png")
-t string
One of: messagesPerDay, messagesPerWeek, incomingMessageLengths, outgoingMessageLengths, messagesTimeOfDay
```
How To
------
You will need an XML backup file _for a single conversation_ from the [SMS
Backup & Restore](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore)
Android app. This tool is designed to analyze backups of single conversion,
from a single contact. It may "run" with multi-conversation backups but does
not perform any multi-conversation analysis.
With the current version (as of 1.20.2018), the backup files are named like
`sms-20180119165444.xml`. I uploaded an XML backup to Google Drive from my
phone and then downloaded the file to a laptop. The app supports toggles for
optionally backing up images and emojis - this code supports those backups with
images and emojis.
See the Makefile for more.