Whatsapp chat loader

bash

pip install llama-index-readers-whatsapp

Export a Whatsapp chat

Open a chat
Tap on the menu > More > Export chat
Select Without media
Save the .txt file in your working directory

For more info see Whatsapp's Help Center

Usage

Messages will get saved in the format: {timestamp} {author}: {message}. Useful for when you want to ask about specific people in a group chat.
Metadata automatically included: source (file name), author and timestamp.

python

from pathlib import Path

from llama_index.readers.whatsapp import WhatsappChatLoader

path = "whatsapp.txt"
loader = WhatsappChatLoader(path=path)
documents = loader.load_data()

# see what's created
documents[0]
# >>> Document(text='2023-02-20 00:00:00 ur mom: Hi 😊', doc_id='e0a7c508-4ba0-48e1-a2ba-9af133225636', embedding=None, extra_info={'source': 'WhatsApp Chat with ur mom', 'author': 'ur mom', 'date': '2023-02-20 00:00:00'})

This loader is designed to be used as a way to load data into LlamaIndex.