convert Adium chat log into Pidgin format
| License (Code): | GPLv2 |
|---|---|
| License (Text): | CC-BY |
| Tags: | Adium, Pidgin, Python |
In case you have some chat logs from the Mac OS X chat client Adium that you want to convert into format of the multi platform Pidgin client, this tool might be handy for you.
This project was started since the original log reader cannot read the Adium logs any more
supported formats
parser
- Adium XML
- JSON
writer
- Purple HTML
- JSON
how it works
The program usually takes Adium style data, which looks like that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <chat xmlns="http://purl.org/net/ulf/ns/0.4-02" account="example@example.org" service="Facebook"> <event type="windowOpened" sender="example@example.org" time="2010-04-02T11:33:51+02:00"></event> <message sender="example@example.org" time="2010-04-02T11:33:51+02:00" alias="Me"><div>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</div></message> <message sender="example@example.org" time="2010-04-02T11:35:39+02:00" alias="Me"><div>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</div></message> <message sender="123456789" time="2010-04-02T11:36:04+02:00" alias="other guy"><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</span></div></message> <event type="windowOpened" sender="example@example.org" time="2010-04-02T12:02:55+02:00"></event> <message sender="123456789" time="2010-04-02T12:02:53+02:00" alias="other guy"><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">xxx</span></div></message> <event type="windowClosed" sender="example@example.org" time="2010-04-02T12:02:58+02:00"></event></chat>
The logs are parsed into an intermediate structure of lists and dictionaries, so it can be saved as a simple JSON file to be reimported later on.
{ "account": "example@example.org", "messages": [ { "alias": "Me", "sender": "example@example.org", "text": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", "time": "2010-04-02T11:33:51+02:00" }, { "alias": "Me", "sender": "example@example.org", "text": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", "time": "2010-04-02T11:35:39+02:00" }, { "alias": "other guy", "sender": "123456789", "text": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", "time": "2010-04-02T11:36:04+02:00" }, { "alias": "other guy", "sender": "123456789", "text": "xxx", "time": "2010-04-02T12:02:53+02:00" } ], "service": "Facebook" }
The JSON interface allows conversion between all logs formats, one just needs to write a parser from a specific format to JSON or a writer from JSON into some format.
Then this is written to the Pidgin HTML format, which looks like that:
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Conversation with 307611255 at Mo 01 Aug 2011 10:45:58 CEST on 307259554 (icq)</title></head><body><h3>Conversation with 307611255 at Mo 01 Aug 2011 10:45:58 CEST on 307259554 (icq)</h3> <font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(11:33:51)</font> <b>Me:</b></font>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br/> <font color="#16569E"><font size="2">(11:35:39)</font> <b>Me:</b></font>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br/> <font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(11:36:04)</font> <b>other guy:</b></font>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<br/> <font color="#A82F2F"><font size="2">(12:02:53)</font> <b>other guy:</b></font>xxx<br/> </body></html>
With that intermediate step, adding a new format is as easy as to write a parser or writer for it.
download the source
Latest release: adium2pidgin_0.2.tar.gz
Other releases: adium2pidgin download folder
You can also download (clone) the git repository from: