The California Poppy release [0] of `imessage-exporter` is the biggest update yet. Most notably, it implements a novel `typedstream` deserializer [1], allowing it to understand the data stored in `NSAttributedString` binary data that is stored in the iMessage database.

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 [2], including edited messages, app messages, reactions, text range formatting, and threads.

[0]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/releases/tag/2...

[1]: https://docs.rs/imessage-database/latest/imessage_database/u...

[2]: https://docs.rs/imessage-database/2.0.1/imessage_database/me...

> The imessage-exporter binary exports iMessage data to txt or html formats

It would be nice if you could also support protobuf such that we can easily work with the data structures in another language without having to deal with parsing txt or html. It’ll be quite fun to run some statistical analysis of some of my conversations