David-Byrne / Hangons

Web app to parse and save your Hangouts.json file into a more friendly format.
https://www.davidbyrne.io/Hangons/
MIT License
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[Feature Request] Google Chat compatability #17

Open 1203-Johnson-Ellis opened 3 years ago

1203-Johnson-Ellis commented 3 years ago

Forgive me for being new and not very tech-savvy. Because Google is attempting to switch from Hangouts to Chat, or make them interchangeable, I tried using this parser with a Google Chat JSON file. It gives me the "The chosen file cannot be parsed" error. I am pulling my Hangouts data to check, but I believe the Chat JSON file should look the same and thus be parseable. Here is a view of the JSON files for a single chat: image Here is a view of the code within the messages.JSON file: image

David-Byrne commented 3 years ago

Interesting, I haven't used Google Chat at all but of course they chose a totally different export format compared to Hangouts :roll_eyes: Just from looking at the snippet you've included I think it'd need an entirely different parser, despite the superficial similarities between the messengers