kermmartian/smsxml2html

Turn SMS Backup & Restore SMS XML files into HTML transcripts

smsxml2html

Turn SMS Backup and Restore SMS XML files into HTML transcripts By Chistopher Mitchell, Ph.D.

This tool creates HTML transcripts of SMS/MMS conversations from Carbonite SMS Backup and Restore backup files. It takes one or more XML files, separates them out into one-on-one conversations, and emits each of those conversations as a separate HTML file. It also parses the URI-encoded MMS images in these backups and produces picture files you can view, edit, and organize.

Usage

python smsxml2html.py -o <output_dir> -n <user_carrier_number> <input_file> [<input_file> ...]

• <output_dir>: New directory into which to place HTML files and images
• <user_carrier_number>: The carrier number of the SMS backups' owner, in 1NNNXXXYYYY format
• <input_file>: One or more XML backup files produced by SMS Backup and Restore.

smsxml2html's Issues

Error

Hello, I hope this is the right place for this. I don't know much about Github or Python.

I attempted to run this on an couple of existing xml backups I have. I get the following:

Parsing conversations from sms-20170620140713.xml
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\sms\smsxml2html.py", line 246, in <module>
    main()
  File "D:\sms\smsxml2html.py", line 237, in main
    messages += parseConversations(root, conversations, users, args.output, carrier_number)
  File "D:\sms\smsxml2html.py", line 104, in parseConversations
    save_msg = SMSMsg(date, body, type_, {})
  File "D:\sms\smsxml2html.py", line 55, in __init__
    self.text = text.decode('utf8')
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

Is this possible to remedy and get it to work?
Thank you

Invalid xmlChar value 55357, line 49, column 101

Hi there,

Ran your script and received the following error text as output:

XXXXXXX@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Untitled Folder/smsxml2html-master$ python smsxml2html.py -o ~/Desktop -n 11111111111 sms-20171119175633.xml
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "smsxml2html.py", line 241, in
main()
File "smsxml2html.py", line 223, in main
tree = etree.parse(input, parser = lxml_parser)
File "src/lxml/lxml.etree.pyx", line 3427, in lxml.etree.parse (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:85131)
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1782, in lxml.etree._parseDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:124005)
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1808, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:124374)
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1712, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:123169)
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 1115, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:117533)
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 573, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:110510)
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 683, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:112276)
File "src/lxml/parser.pxi", line 613, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:111124)
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: xmlParseCharRef: invalid xmlChar value 55357, line 49, column 101

Any help would be appreciated. I ran this on an Ubuntu 16.04.1 VM and received the same output whether using Python 2.X or 3.X.