Yahoo! Messenger Archive Decoder
Posted by Cristi on Sunday, 2008-10-12
Using the same approach as others did (see notes at the bottom of this page), and doing some reverse engineering of my own, I’ve created a little script in C that decodes all the messages (chats are ignored) in a yahoo profile directory.
I’ve made this because i wanted to merge my Yahoo! Messenger logs and Pidgin logs (I am also using Linux) in one common place.
It doesn’t have any interface.. it works like this:
Method 1: Just drag and drop the user profile folder on the exe. The user profile folder is, for example
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Profiles\pufuletz_roz
Example:
Method 2: From the command line, run YM_decoder <user_profile_folder>
The decoded logs are put in a “Decoded_Archive” subfolder of the target profile.
Download .zip
Notes
Some reverse engineering for finding out the format of the archive I did my own, but I was also inspired by:
Good luck!
Razzor said
fumos.pufulet roz:))