suurjaak
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3 months ago Glad to hear the program is helping people!
(By online export I assume you mean exporting from Skyperious graphical user interface)
Your issue seems to be that the command-line interface is not getting the password to log in to Skype online for downloading the media. The export command does not support giving the password on the command-line directly (and neither the username).
You can see the command-line parameters for export here: https://suurjaak.github.io/Skyperious/help.html#export, relevant ones here are:
--ask-password prompt for Skype password on HTML export to download
shared media
--store-password store entered password in configurationFor bypassing the password prompt, you can run the export once with
--ask-password --store-password
so that Skyperious stores your password for this database in its configuration file. Or run the graphical interface once, log in to Skype online and check the "Remember password" checkbox - again gets saved in configuration.
(Password is stored in obfuscated form, not quite plain text.)
moi427
First of all: this is a really a great program to make Skype backups, very happy with it being able to backup the conversations (since april 2017) with my son who lives in the USA!
I first ran the backup on-line via the program (v5.5 on W10), but now I created a batchjob that runs via the scheduler to run sync and backup automatically on a weekly basis. To my surprise there's a difference between the created backup via this batch and when I run it on-line from Skyperious, I haven't been able to find an explanation for this behavior. When running the export on-line, I get all photos and videos in the export html-files (as a kind of thumbnails you can enlarge), but when I run the export via the batchjob there's only a link to those pictures and videos. And yes, the on-line export takes in case of the chats with my son quite some time, but for me that's not a problem at all since it's a treasure to me. Example line in the batch export html-file: "To view this shared photo, go to: https://api.asm.skype.com/v1/objects/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/views/imgpsh_fullsize" The link opens properly, but why can't I get the html-file with the photos/videos included like in the on-line export version? If this is intended behavior, perhaps it's possible to include a parameters to chose for the "full version" or this "small version", like [-v {full, small}].
B.t.w. the batchcommands I'm running after the sync: RMDIR "D:\xxx\yyy\zzz\Skyperious\Export from NAME" /S/Q (this to get every time the same directoryname created, it can't be updated) skyperious export D:\xxx\yyy\zzz\Skyperious\Skyperious\SkypeID.main.db -u aaaaa -p bbbbb -t html -o D:\xxx\yyy\zzz\Skyperious (The addition of my -o parameter doesn't have effect, it's just for my clarity).