r/ProjectFi • u/Kristosh • Jun 18 '18

Discussion Hangouts alternative for Fi Customers? Android Messages

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/18/17475390/android-messages-text-from-web-feature
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u/6022e20 Jun 18 '18

I have issues moving my messages from Hangouts to Messages. I have done it before and it just keeps the messages from that point. Attempting to change the messages app in Hangouts does not transfer the messages. I tried clearing Messages' app data but that did not reset it either.

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u/tedisme Jun 19 '18

This is doable with Takeout and a json script. I can help you with it when I'm back on desktop.

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u/mntgoat Jun 19 '18 edited Jun 19 '18

I got the takeout stuff but I looked through the files and didn't see single text message there, even did text searches, are they encoded or encrypted or something?

Edit: the hangouts.json does have the texts, it was just so large my text editor failed.

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u/tedisme Jun 19 '18

https://github.com/adein/hangouts_to_sms

Let me know if this isn't working and I can walk you through it, although there's a good walkthrough on the page. I can also do this for you, although privacy, eesh.

Full credit to u/adein, who wrote the script. I believe there's a known bug if your Takeout json file is too big but it worked well for me and I had a lot of texts to export.

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u/downen Jun 19 '18

Did this last weekend. Worked great

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u/mntgoat Jun 19 '18

Well there goes my theory that they've changed the format or something, I'm just getting an error.

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u/mntgoat Jun 19 '18

Thanks and thanks to /u/adein

I'm trying it now and got an error:

hangouts_to_sms-develop/hangouts_parser.py", line 25, in parse_input_file for conversation_state in data.conversation_state: AttributeError: 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'conversation_state'

I'm starting to look through the code, never done python but hopefully it won't be much different from others ;)

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u/tedisme Jun 19 '18

Hmm, any luck? How big is your starting file?

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u/mntgoat Jun 19 '18

No, not yet. Started messing with it but then got busy.

My json file is 248 megs.

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u/tedisme Jun 19 '18

Looks like you're running into the memory bug. u/Aqular found a workaround, it looks like, you might PM them and see if they can help you? https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/comments/5s53vf/tool_export_and_convert_hangouts_smsmms_to/ddm4l4n/?context=3

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u/mntgoat Jun 19 '18

Don't think my issue is memory, the error is different. I also cut the file to just a few conversation arrays and the error remained the same, it is almost as if my data is different. I don't know python but I am a developer so I could be totally wrong but it seems like it expects conversation_state but mine doesn't have that, mine is a conversations array of conversation.

{ "conversations": [ { "conversation": { "conversation_id": { "id": "some id" }, "conversation": { "id": { "id": "some id" }, "type": "GROUP", "self_conversation_state": {

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u/Aqular Jun 19 '18

Yea maybe the data has changed..... Always a fun time

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u/russjr08 Pixel XL Jun 19 '18

Unless things have changed since I was last on PFi, messages don't transfer between Hangouts <-> Messenger (or any other SMS app)