Features
- 📱 Parse WhatsApp exports from Android and iOS (including zip files)
- 🐼 Convert to pandas DataFrames for easy analysis
- 📊 Interactive visualizations powered by Plotly
- 🔧 Command-line tools for quick CSV conversions
- 🌍 Multi-language support for various WhatsApp date formats
- 🚀 Fast and efficient processing of large chat histories
Installation
pip install whatstk
Requirements: Python 3.11+
Install development version
pip install git+https://github.com/lucasrodes/whatstk.git@develop
Quick Start
Export your WhatsApp chat
Follow the export instructions for your device.
Load and analyze
from whatstk import df_from_whatsapp
# Load chat into a DataFrame
df = df_from_whatsapp("path/to/chat.txt")
# Or directly from iOS zip export
df = df_from_whatsapp("path/to/chat.zip")
# Now use pandas to analyze
print(df.head())
Convert to CSV
whatstk-to-csv input_chat.txt output.csv
Visualize
from whatstk.graph import plot_user_message_count
# Interactive message count chart
fig = plot_user_message_count(df)
fig.show()
Documentation
Full documentation available at whatstk.readthedocs.io
- Getting Started Guide
- Code Examples
- API Reference
- What whatstk cannot tell you — read before treating parsed output as a faithful record
Using an AI assistant? Point it at llms.txt, a condensed map of the library in one fetch.
Contributing
We welcome contributions! See our contribution guide to get started.
License
This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License.
Citation
If you use whatstk in your research or project, please cite:
@software{whatstk,
author = {Rodés-Guirao, Lucas},
title = {whatstk: WhatsApp analysis and parsing toolkit},
url = {https://github.com/lucasrodes/whatstk},
year = {2025}
}
or as
Lucas Rodés-Guirao. "whatstk, WhatsApp analysis and parsing toolkit", https://github.com/lucasrodes/whatstk
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- Summary Analysis of My WhatsApp Chats by N.M. Danial
- From Chat to Insights: Analyzing WhatsApp Group Conversations by Erland Sada
- Building a Chatbot: Fine-Tune LLMs with WhatsApp Data by Daniel Pleus
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Made with ❤️ by Lucas Rodés-Guirao
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