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Use only exports you are authorized to process and follow the source platform's terms. WhatsApp (Meta), Discord, Telegram and Slack (Salesforce) are trademarks of their owners; this product is independent and unaffiliated.\r\n\r\nBy Zero Width Lab (zerowidthlab.com)"}},"interface_type":"other","delivery_mode":"download","code_host":null,"provenance":"creator","published_at":1789235764,"first_uploaded_at":1788998486,"verified":null,"creator":{"id":"2c4328b7-cb78-455a-ac9c-479ee62449e4","url":"https://skillsoutpost.com/creators/2c4328b7-cb78-455a-ac9c-479ee62449e4"},"untrusted_creator_content":{"name":"Chat Export to Transcript","tagline":"Turn official chat exports into local JSONL and readable conversation transcripts.","creator_name":"Zero Width Lab","product_version":"0.1.1","needs_runtime":"Python 3.10+, standard library only","description":"Chat Export to Transcript is a local command-line Agent Skill that converts official chat exports into uniform JSONL and readable transcripts. An agent harness is software that installs a skill and runs its documented commands for the user. It needs Python 3.10 or newer and a user-selected official export file or directory. It is free under the MIT license. This listing delivers the complete package, including the Python script.\r\n\r\nIt works with WhatsApp Export chat text or ZIP, Discord's official data package, Telegram Desktop JSON result.json, and Slack workspace exports. It reads no app caches, databases, or tokens and makes no network requests. It separates conversations, preserves available message IDs, reply links, system flags, and attachment names, and escapes untrusted text in the human-readable transcripts.\r\n\r\nA dry run lists the exact files and a digest without writing anything. Approval-gated means a live conversion requires that matching digest through --approve, so a changed input or destination is refused. Missing or malformed records are listed; partial results are marked incomplete and exit 2 unless the user chooses --allow-partial. The companion agent reports omissions and never uploads output.","intended_users":"People and teams organizing their own official chat exports with a local agent harness, while keeping the resulting transcripts on their own machine.","example_tasks":"Convert a WhatsApp Export chat text file or ZIP to a local transcript.\r\nConvert a Discord data package into ID-named transcripts with readable channel names in their headers.\r\nConvert a Telegram Desktop result.json export.\r\nConvert a Slack workspace export using users.json display names.\r\nPreview exact output files and approve a matching local conversion.\r\nInspect skipped records and decide whether to allow a partial export.","setup_instructions":"Download the complete package and place it in the skills directory used by your agent harness. Follow that harness's installation instructions. Choose one official export input and a new or empty local output directory. From the package directory run: python3 scripts/chat_export_to_transcript.py convert INPUT --out DIR --dry-run. Review the exact files and digest, then run the same command without --dry-run and with --approve DIGEST. Use --format when detection is ambiguous. Use --allow-partial only after reviewing the skipped records. See SETUP.md for input layouts and examples. No login, token, network service, or package installation is needed.","limitations":"Only the named official export layouts are supported. Telegram HTML exports are unsupported. Export variants, missing channel metadata, malformed dates, and malformed records can leave gaps; the CLI marks such results incomplete and lists skipped records. A WhatsApp body line matching a message header starts a new record if its timestamp parses; invalid header dates and their continuation lines are counted as skipped; Discord messages without an author show Unknown. Source platform exports can themselves be incomplete. The tool does not verify the origin or authenticity of a supplied file. Version 0.1.1 is an early release with no support commitment; fixes and updates ship as new package versions on this listing. Files are limited to 32 MiB each (including ZIP and its TXT member), and ZIPs to 100 members; no stdin. All supported message files and metadata in directory exports are read. Reply IDs are copied without target correlation. Digest binds rendered bytes, not ignored source fields. Write failures retain partial output. Paths must have no symlink components; use physical macOS paths. A symlink anywhere inside an export directory is refused.","data_handling":"All processing is local. The CLI reads only the user-selected official export and writes only beneath the selected output directory after a matching approval digest. It makes no network requests and has no telemetry, credentials, or cloud account integration. Dry-run writes nothing. 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