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since the author mentions whatsapp:

What's the best strategy for exporting _all_ whatsapp messages on a device to a format that is readiable without whatsapp? - the export functionalities i've tried work with a message cap or other limitations.

Otherwise, they involve emailing yourself conversations one at a time.

I _think_ this is region dependent, but would like to hear from others.

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I am the author -- I addressed this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27104896 .

I just replied to someone else about this [0] - the tl;dr is on Android at least you can grab its sqlite database unencrypted while the app's running.

It's readable without WA, though obviously proprietary in the sense of the structure of it, but it is just sqlite, you can then dump it out however you want.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27106454

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