Skyperious 3.

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Skyperious is a Skype database viewer and merger, written in Python.
You can open Skype SQLite databases and look at their contents:
- search across all messages and contacts
- browse chat history and export as HTML or spreadsheet, see chat statistics
- import contacts from a CSV file to your Skype contacts
- view any database table and export their data, fix database corruption
- change, add or delete data in any table
- execute direct SQL queries
and
- synchronize messages in two Skype databases: keep chat history up-to-date on
different computers, or restore missing messages from older files into the
current one
Additionally, it doubles as a useful database browser for any SQLite file.
Also, a command line interface is available with key functions like
exporting, searching, and merging.
The graphical version includes a Python console window.
Making a backup of the database file is recommended before making any changes.
There is an easy "Save as" button for that on the database index page.
Downloads, help texts, and more screenshots at
http://suurjaak.github.io/Skyperious.
Using The Program
----------------Skyperious can look through user directories and detect Skype databases
automatically, or you can select specific files or folders.
Once added to the database list, a file can be opened for browsing, searching
and exporting, or compared with another database for merging.
Searching an opened database supports a simple Google-like query syntax.
You can use keywords to search among specific authors or chats only
(from:john chat:links), or from certain dates only (date:2012, date:2010..2013).
Search supports wildcards, exact phrases, grouping, excluding,
and either-or queries.
HTML export can download shared photos and embed them in the resulting HTML.
This can be disabled in File -> Advanced Options -> SharedImageAutoDownload.
As shared photos are kept on the web, Skyperious needs to ask for Skype account
password on HTML export. The password is only used for retrieving the images,
and is not retained.
Image download is also supported in the command-line interface.
In database comparison, you can scan one database for messages not found in
the other, and merge all detected messages to the other database. Or you can
browse and copy specific chats and contacts.
Skyperious offers a number of options from the command line:
export FILE [-t format]
export Skype databases as HTML, text or spreadsheet
search "query" FILE
search Skype databases for messages or data
merge FILE1 FILE2
merge two or more Skype databases into a new databa
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diff FILE1 FILE2

gui [FILE]

compare chat history in two Skype databases

launch Skyperious graphical program (default option

)
Skyperious can be minimized to tray, clicking the tray icon opens
a search popup.
Skyperious can usually read from the same file Skype is currently using, althoug
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this can cause temporary program errors. Writing to such a file is ill-advised.
The program itself is stand-alone, can work from any directory, and does not
need additional installation, Windows installers have been provided for
convenience. The installed program can be copied to a USB stick and used
elsewhere.
Skyperious has been tested under Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and
reported to work under Windows 8.
If you encounter a bug in the Skyperious GUI, you can send a report from menu
Help -> Send feedback.
Attribution
----------Skyperious has been built using the following open-source software:
- Python 2.7.10 (http://www.python.org)
- wxPython 3.0.2 (http://www.wxpython.org)
- Pillow 2.8.1 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow)
- pyparsing 2.0.3 (http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/)
- step, Simple Template Engine for Python (https://github.com/dotpy/step)
- XlsxWriter 0.7.3 (https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter)
- dateutil 2.4.2, (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil)
- Skype4Py 1.0.35, (https://github.com/awahlig/skype4py)
- BeautifulSoup 4.3.2 (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)
Shared images slideshow in HTML export implemented with jsOnlyLightbox,
(c) 2014, Felix Hagspiel (https://github.com/felixhagspiel/jsOnlyLightbox).
Emoticon images in HTML export are property of Skype Limited, (c) 2004-2006,
released under the Skype Component License 1.0.
Default avatar icon from:
Fancy Avatars, (c) 2009 Brandon Mathis,
http://brandonmathis.com/projects/fancy-avatars/
Several icons from:
Fugue Icons, (c) 2010 Yusuke Kamiyamane,
http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/
Includes fonts Carlito Regular and Carlito bold,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Google_Crosextra_Carlito_fonts
Binaries compiled with PyInstaller 2.1, http://www.pyinstaller.org
Installer created with Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 3.0b1,
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

License
------(The MIT License)
Copyright (C) 2011 by Erki Suurjaak
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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For licenses of included libraries, see "3rd-party licenses.txt".