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Products that do what iMessage-exporter, a full-featured CLI app and library does

I've spent a long time reverse engineering nearly every aspect of Apple's iMessage SQLite tables to build this program. As far as I know, there are no other tools that support the full corpus of iMessage features, including edited messages, app messages, reactions, and threads. I built this software to preserve some conversations with loved ones; I hope others find it useful as well. For the curious, here are some of the more interesting aspects of the database I came across: - Dates are stored as Unix timestamp with an epoch of 1/1/2001 00:00:00 - Messages can have multiple parts,…

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