Chat Message Extractor

A simple Python program that extracts messages sent by a specific user from multiple HTML files generated by snapchat. This tool helps users gather and analyze chat history easily.

Features

• Extracts all messages from a specified user.
• Processes multiple HTML files in a designated directory.
• Saves extracted messages into a text file for easy access.

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• BeautifulSoup4
• lxml (required, for better HTML parsing)

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your_username/chat_extractor.git
   Usage
   
    Place all your HTML files in a folder (e.g., html_files/).
   
    Update the directory_path variable in run1.py with the path to your folder containing the HTML files.
   
    Set the username variable to the user whose messages you want to extract (e.g., derek_c04).
   
    Run the script:
   
    bash
   

python run1.py

After execution, the extracted messages will be saved to extracted_texts.txt.