Export only available as text file?

[arun-gurung]

Skyperious can find my main chat and I can export also, but when I save it, the file chooser says it's a HTML-file, but the export is just a plain text file?

[suurjaak]

Can you describe in more detail, what steps you took and what was the result?

[arun-gurung]

As you know, I had to reinstall my system. Now everything looks correct and follow the usual steps like before, I select my chat and choose "export selected chat into individual files". In the "Save" dialogue, it says it saves as HTML but the end result is just a plain text file, although the chat is nicely formatted there.

[suurjaak]

What happens if you try the other export formats?

[arun-gurung]

Well, in the save dialogue box, there is no automatic file extension name. If I write manually that the file will end with .html then it exports correctly. The other formats also work.

[suurjaak]

Oho, looks like the file dialog behaves a bit differently under Linux. Will be fixed in an upcoming release.

Another workaround for now - open the chat in Skyperious and use the "Export messages to file" button, this seems to set the format correctly.

[arun-gurung]

OK thanks for another workaround.

Before you close the issue, I just wanna know why you can export pictures but no videos, voice messages, PDFs or other documents?

[suurjaak]

Shared videos and voice messages are exported, if available from Skype online. Other shared file contents in general are not - because a shared file can be hundreds of megabytes.

Although maybe I could provide that as a separate option..

But Skype retains shared files online only for 30 days (https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34644/skype-file-sharing-file-types-size-and-time-limits).

(I will keep this issue open until releasing a fix for the format selection)

[arun-gurung]

I have a video and voice messages which are newer than 30 days. I exported into HTML with shared media in a separate folder and there were only pictures there.

[suurjaak]

Can you do this:

• open the chat in Skyperious
• open the Python console
• execute page.stc_history.GetMessage(index)["body_xml"], where index is the index of the audio/video message in currently shown messages (can be negative if counting from the end, e.g. -1 is the last)

What does it print?

If the result is something like <URIObject uri="https://api.asm.skype.com/v1/objects/0-weu-d8-....., what is the result if you copy the uri-value and execute db.live.get_api_media(that_copied_value, "video") (or "audio" if voice message)? If the result is empty, was there an error printed to the log window?

[arun-gurung]

It prints this, I don't get any URI.

page.stc_history.GetMessage(-1)["body_xml"] u'<files><file index="0" size="18023933">video937d29a9-8f4f-486a-af95-491aaa280a8bvideo.mp4'

I tried with a picture URI and I got lots of encoded output.

[suurjaak]

Sorry, did not understand - what picture URI did you try with?

But it looks like this message was not a video message, but a shared file instead.

If you're willing to try further:

• open the chat in Skyperious
• open the Python console
• execute chat = db.live.skype.chats[live.identity_to_id(page.chat["identity"])]
• execute for msg in chat.getMsgs(): print repr(msg) over and over again until it reaches the message in question

What does the printed message look like?

(Btw, to avoid formatting issues with copy-pasted data as you seemed to have with your last comment, you can attach it as a file instead)

[arun-gurung]

I executed db.live.get_api_media(my_URI, "picture") and got a lot of encoded output that made no sense.

When I execute "chat = db.live.skype.chats[live.identity_to_id(page.chat["identity"])]" I get:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<input>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'chats'

Then I execute "for msg in chat.getMsgs(): print repr(msg)" I get:

File "<input>", line 2 for msg in chat.getMsgs(): print repr(msg) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[suurjaak]

And the my_URI was what exactly?

Oops, forgot to specify the first step:

• log in to Skype on the Online-page

[arun-gurung]

my_URI was just a copy and paste from the Skyperious chat window, there was a link to a picture there.

I logged in and now I don't get a traceback error, but just empty output and get back to the prompt.

By the way, it looks like the video has been sent as a file. I recorded a video on my mobile and chose "share with Skype" and just sent it via there.

[suurjaak]

Yes, "share with Skype" means it's an ordinary file sharing. Sending an audio/video message is a different action inside Skype, where you record a clip to send.

Do you have any such messages that are not getting exported?

[arun-gurung]

The last video I sent was live recorded from inside Skype, but it looks like it was sent as a file. I did not select an already stored video from the disk.

No, I have only luck with exporting pictures and nothing else. Now I sent an already stored video from disk and it's the same, no URI only "Sent file video.mp4".

[arun-gurung]

I sent a voice message via Android and there is no URI, the Skyperious chat log says "Sent file 1-audioMessage.m4a". So, I guess it downloads only files that are uploaded to the Skype cloud.

I see you have no comment, so it can be a feature request. For example, optional choice to download attachments and a warning if the files are very big.

[suurjaak]

The newly released Skyperious v4.8 fixes the export type issue on Linux.

Can you confirm that the export issue is cleared?

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It also downloads shared files in HTML export, if you choose the "HTML document with shared files in subfolder" type.

For that you need to re-synchronize the database from online, Can you confirm that it works for you? At least for recently shared files; there is some limit on how long the files are kept in Skype online.

[arun-gurung]

Yes, now the export file extension issue is resolved.

I exported my chat with only a single picture and everything went well. Then now I sent a video and a voice message for test and now I get an error during export, here's a screenshot.

[suurjaak]

Please reinstall the latest Skyperious and try again. A bug had crept in, I've updated the sources.

[arun-gurung]

I updated and now there is no export error, but alas it exported only an image and nothing else.

[suurjaak]

What if you send an ordinary file, does that get included in the "HTML document with shared files in subfolder" export?

[arun-gurung]

It successfully exported a PDF file, but still not the video and voice message.

[suurjaak]

Excellent that the file retrieval in general works.

Closing this issue, as the original problem was solved.

Can you open a new issue if video/audio messages are not being downloaded? And describe there more precisely what the export result was.