Some flaky scripts to log and visualize your chat history via gchat.

Python packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Freetype

Mac OS X

brew install freetype

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install freetype

./getchats.sh [your google email address]

Example:

./getchats.sh johndoe@gmail.com

You will be prompted to enter your gmail password. The final data will be downloaded to the file called "analyzed".

Note if your default python 2.7 interpreter is not python, then edit config.sh to change the PYTHON variable to point to it.

If the script complains that it isn't able to find the Gmail/[Chats] folder, go to GMail settings, and under Labels, make sure that "Show in IMAP" is checked.

Note that google's new messaging system ("hangouts") does not log messages to IMAP (despite being accessible from the web interface). Therefore, this script is unfortunately unable to download any of your conversations post hangouts migration. It is unclear whether or not google has any desire to fix this bug.