Export WhatsApp Chats from iTunes Backup to XML and render as HTML.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type ="text/xsl" href="Render-Chat-as-HTML.xslt"?>
<Chat xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Contact>491234567890</Contact>
<Messages>
<Message>
<IsFromMe>1</IsFromMe>
<MessageType>0</MessageType>
<Starred>1</Starred>
<MessageDate>2020-09-29T11:16:42+02:00</MessageDate>
<Text>Hallo, World! 😊</Text>
<ToJId>[email protected]</ToJId>
</Message>
<Message>
<IsFromMe>0</IsFromMe>
<MessageType>0</MessageType>
<Starred xsi:nil="true" />
<MessageDate>2020-10-11T18:20:02+02:00</MessageDate>
<FromJId>[email protected]</FromJId>
<Text>Hello, back! 🤗</Text>
</Message>
</Messages>
</Chat>Chats are being exported from ChatStorage.sqlite, which can be obtained for example through WazzapMigrator.
$> WhatsAppTools.Console export /Path/to/ChatStorage.sqlite 49123456789
This will create 49123456789.xml next to ChatStorage.sqlite. Opening the created XML-File in Browser will apply the Stylesheet, which renders your Chats readably.
WhatsApp-Elixir is a Windows desktop application based on Securcube-WhatsApp-Viewer, with which you can view and search a WhatsApp backup. I found it after finishing my work on my WhatsApp-Tools.