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Skyperious 3.1

Skyperious is a Skype database viewer and merger, written in Python.

You can open local Skype SQLite databases and look at their contents:

  • search across all messages and contacts
  • browse chat history and export as HTML, see chat statistics
  • import contacts from a CSV file to your Skype contacts
  • view any database table and export their data, fix database corruption
  • change, add or delete data in any table
  • execute direct SQL queries and
  • synchronize messages in two Skype databases: keep chat history up-to-date on different computers, or restore missing messages from older files into the current one

Additionally, it doubles as a useful database browser for any SQLite file. Also, a command line interface is available with key functions like exporting, searching, and merging.

Making a backup of the database file is recommended before making any changes.

Screenshots and Windows binaries at http://suurjaak.github.com/Skyperious/screens.html.

Using The Program

Skyperious can look through user directories and detect Skype databases automatically, or you can select files yourself from any folder. A database file can be opened for browsing, searching and exporting, or compared with another database for merging.

Searching an opened database supports a simple Google-like query syntax. You can use keywords to search among specific authors or chats only (from:john chat:links), or from certain dates only (date:2010..2013). Search supports wildcards, exact phrases, grouping, excluding, and either-or queries.

In database comparison, you can scan one database for messages not found in the other, and merge all detected messages to the other database. Or you can browse and copy specific chats and contacts.

Skyperious offers a number of options from the command line:

  export FILE [-t format]    export Skype databases as HTML, text or spreadsheet
  search "query" FILE        search Skype databases for messages or data
  merge FILE1 FILE2          merge two or more Skype databases into a new database
  diff FILE1 FILE2           compare chat history in two Skype databases
  gui [FILE]                 launch Skyperious graphical program (default option)

Skyperious has been tested under Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux, and reported to work under OS X and Windows 8. In source code form, it should run wherever Python and the required Python packages are installed.

If running from source code, launch skyperious.bat under Windows, or skyperious.sh where shell scripts are supported, or execute 'python src\main.py'.

Dependencies

If running from source code, Skyperious needs Python 2.7 or 2.6, and the following 3rd-party Python packages:

If wxPython is not available, the command line interface will function regardless.

The following 3rd-party Python packages are not strictly required, but provide additional functionality like Excel export, contact import, and convenient date period choices in chat history:

Skyperious can also run under wxPython 2.8.12+, with some layout quirks. Python 2.6 will need the argparse library. Python 3 is not currently supported.

Installation

Windows

Download and launch the latest setup from http://suurjaak.github.com/Skyperious/downloads.html.

Mac

  • install Homebrew
  • install Python: open a terminal and run brew install python2
  • install wxPython: run brew install --python wxmac --devel (or use a suitable binary from http://wxpython.org/download.php)
  • run brew install PIL (or brew install Pillow)
  • run brew install pyparsing
  • run brew install python-dateutil
  • run brew install Skype4Py
  • run brew install XlsxWriter

Download and extract the Skyperious source, launch skyperious.sh.

Ubuntu/Debian

  • run sudo aptitude install wx2.8-i18n libwxgtk2.8-dev libgtk2.0-dev
  • run sudo aptitude install python-wxgtk2.8 python-wxtools
  • run sudo aptitude install python-pip
  • download and extract the Skyperious source
  • open a terminal in the extracted directory
  • run sudo pip install -r requirements

Launch skyperious.sh.

Attribution

Skyperious includes step, Simple Template Engine for Python, (c) 2012, Daniele Mazzocchio (https://github.com/dotpy/step).

Emoticon images in HTML export are property of Skype Limited, (c) 2004-2006, released under the Skype Component License 1.0.

Default avatar icon from: Fancy Avatars, (c) 2009 Brandon Mathis, http://brandonmathis.com/projects/fancy-avatars/

Several icons from: Fugue Icons, (c) 2010 Yusuke Kamiyamane, http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/

Includes fonts Carlito Regular and Carlito bold, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Google_Crosextra_Carlito_fonts

Binaries compiled with PyInstaller 2.1, http://www.pyinstaller.org

Installers created with Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 3.0a2, http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

License

Copyright (C) 2011-2014 by Erki Suurjaak. Released under the MIT License (see LICENSE.md for details).

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