Show HN: WhatsBook, archive your whatsApp chats in print using python and LaTeX

Author here:

Would love to hear the HN thoughts on the project and I'll check in now and then to answer any questions!

code: https://github.com/theveloped/WhatsBook

The result is neat. Unfortunately since whatsapp refuses to provide an API, it is very cumbersome to export each chat sessions manually. Have you found a workaround for this?

Most definetely! As written in the post there is a "new" (don't know how new) feature that let's you export a single chat conversation. Within the chat you can select export chat under options.

Will this .tex file contain all the images? What happens if an image is missing? What about audio and video?

For now only still images are supported.

These will be checked for availability and if so a reference to them is added in the .tex file. On building the PDF using LaTeX the referenced images will be included.

Would love to have this for Telegram secret chats.

Haha guess you found the end to end-to-end encryption ;)