Facebook Message Viewer is a local web service allows you to view your history message in a more convenient way.
- Linux
You need to install python 3 with your package manager, and run the messageviewer.py
python messageviewer.py
Use your browser, visiting http://localhost:8080/
- Windows
Simply run the messageviewer.exe
Use your browser, visit http://localhost:8080/
You can download "a copy of your Facebook data" in Facebook setting page. It includes Messenger (chat) messages log in file messages.htm
, which we targets on. Currently we request that you download your archive in English interface.
In the website UI, click upload
in the navigation bar above, and upload messages.htm
.
The messages will be processed in background, which may takes about 1-2 minutes. Depend on how many messages log to be processed.
In view
tab, you can view all the history message.
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You can select date in calendar to view messages on specific day.
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You can click on someone's name to change their name.
Facebook sometimes change user name in log file to their facebook id, which I cannot solve.
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Please report bugs / feature-request to github issue tracker.
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Contribution is always welcome.