Offline database for archiving data from different messengers?
reddit / selfhosted

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MRCP_PC · 2023-11-15 15:30

I'm aware of messaging aggregators like Franz. What I am looking for
is more simple. I want to set up a database with a suitable frontend,
that allows me to add "message" objects. This system is meant for
archiving only, I do not want or need to send messages from it.

Message objects could come from backups of messaging apps like
Telegram and WhatsApp, but it could also be email, or even handwritten
letters that I scanned.

In essence, I'm trying to build an archive for any personal messages
that I receive and send. I'm happy with writing scripts to upload
backed up data from messengers, but I would like a frontend that
allows me to search for messages and lets me upload single item (for
example letters) manually. Support for attachements display (image,
video & audio) would be great.

Can anyone recommend a good starting point for this or even ready
solution for this?

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shadoodled · 2023-11-15 15:47

There was this post just hours ago

https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/17vectm/chatvault_store_your_
whatsapp_messages/

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Supertrinko · 2023-11-15 22:05

Great for WhatsApp, would love one that can absorb facebook data
exports.

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MRCP_PC · 2023-11-16 14:17

Ha, nice! Seems like other people are thinking in a similar way. Thank
you for linking to this.

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s3r3ng · 2023-11-16 20:42

I have recently started (only barely started) fulling around with NATS
which is a sort of event stream pub/sub and request/reply system.  If
your source messaging systems publish events to NATs then other
workers subscribed to those events could archive them or whatever.
NATs clients exists for most languages.  NATs server you can run
yourself.   Up to you what files and stuff you archive away.  Many
open source tools offer viewing playback appropriate to MIME type of
file etc.   Trick is noting and posting relevant events.  Manual
posting is very easy and even from command line.

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MRCP_PC · 2023-11-17 14:41

Very interesting, thank you. What about frontend, are there any
projects that you are aware of that offer views as you would find in a
typical messenger?