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!
LE:
Linux Version
A lot of visitors are searching for a linux version.
I haven’t yet writen one (the chdir functions are different across platforms).
BUT the source code is in the .zip archive, and there’s a multi-platform function that decodes an archive. It’s like
int ym_decode_file(const char *id, const char *other_id, const char *strFin, const char *strFout);So just pass the yahoo IDs of the file and input and output file names, and that’s it.
If u would need a ym decoder for linux, leave a comment and i’ll write it as soon as i have some free time.
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