[QUESTION] How to get certain message objects?

[RCECoder]

What is your question?

Is there an option to specify only the message objects we are interested in? An example would be to specify only

"id"
"name"
"message"
"timestamp"

So that it only saves those items and not any other.

Also, why is UTF saved in a escaping format?

"name": "\ud83d\udc51\u0627\u0628" 
"message": "\u064a\u0640\u0640\u064e"

Why not in a readable format?

Update: How can we run this chat downloader script in a debugger? It seems to have error

from .metadata import __version__
ImportError: attempted relative import with no known parent package

I have tried both IDLE and winpdb. Any ideas?

[xenova]

Is there an option to specify only the message objects we are interested in?

You would have to do this with a custom python script.

Also, why is UTF saved in a escaping format?

That is how unicode characters are encoded in JSON.

How can we run this chat downloader script in a debugger?

You cannot run the file directly. You must run it as a module using the -m flag. For example, you can run it using the command python -m chat_downloader --version. Check out this for more information.