Facebook Messenger Data Grapher

Use 64 bit Python or it will not work!!!!!! <----- Important read this!

Dependencies

• Python 3 64 bit
• Pandas
• Matplotlib
• BeautifulSoup4

How To

1. Install all the dependencies
2. Download/clone this repository
3. On Facebook, go to Settings then select "Download a copy of your Facebook data" (you can select either HTML or JSON formats)
4. Once you have that, find the messages folder inside the archive and copy that folder into your clone of this repository
   • This folder should keep the same name (messages) and be placed at the top level of the repo
5. Edit userinfo.py and add your information
6. If you selected HTML format in step 3, run python html_parser.py; otherwise, run python json_parser.py for the JSON format
7. Run python grapher.py
8. Graphs will be generated and saved in the graphs folder

Results

Here are a few examples of the type of graphs generated:

Want to contribute? Here's some features to consider

• Additional parameters: who messaged first, average reply time.
• More permutations of existing parameters (sent/received, sex, date, number of messages, and number of people)