command-line chatlog converter/synchronizer

• Designed to convert to and from different chatlog formats with no loss of information
• Currently supports Adium and Pidgin HTML logs
• Multithreaded (using Python's multiprocessing module)
• Handles many cases including group chats, normal messages, errors, and status changes

• Beautiful Soup 4
• python-dateutil
• pytz
• Python imaging library (PIL)

Ubuntu

apt-get install python-bs4 python-dateutil python-tz python-imaging

• Vaguely similar to rsync

usage: chatlogsync [-h] [-d] [-f {adium,pidgin-html}] [-F] [-n]
                   [--no-comments] [-q] [-t NUM_THREADS] [-v]
                   source [source ...] destination

Sync chatlogs in different formats

positional arguments:
  source                source log file or directory
  destination           destination log directory

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug           enable debug output
  -f {adium,pidgin-html}, --format {adium,pidgin-html}
                        format to use for output files
  -F, --force           force regeneration of existing logs at destination
  -n, --dry-run         perform a trial run with no changes made
  --no-comments         do not write comments to converted logs
  -q, --quiet           suppress warnings
  -t NUM_THREADS, --threads NUM_THREADS
                        use NUM_THREADS worker processes for parsing
  -v, --verbose         enable verbose output

Example:

./chatlogsync.py ~/.purple/logs ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/Logs -f adium

will convert all Pidgin logs to Adium logs (that don't already exist).

Adding the -F argument would convert all the logs even if they already exist at the destination.

• Mostly tested and designed for Linux, but works on OS X if all dependencies are installed. Untested but should work on Windows without too much trouble.
• Handles many cases, but certainly not all -- definitely needs more testing.

GPLv3