Facebook Messenger Analyzer

Simple Facebook Messenger analyzer where it tells you who you have interacted with the most(excluding groupchats).

Table of contents

• About
• Features
• Future Features
• Setup
• Instructions
• Technologies
• Challenges
• Inspiration
• Time Spent
• Bugs

About

This project was built using Python with the help of tkinter python GUI library for the user interface. The analysis can take anywhere from a few miliseconds to couple of seconds depending on how much folders and data you have. Once the analysis is done, it will produce 3 files: MA_Alphabetical_Order.txt , MA_Chat_Count_Order.txt , and MA_Total_Count_Order.txt. Each file contains JSON output of your data.

• MA_Alphabetical_Order.txt: Orders your output alphabetically
• MA_Chat_Count_Order.txt: Orders your output by only chat(pure messages without photos, stickers, etc...) count
• MA_Total_Count_Order.txt: Orders your output by all interactions(including chat, gifs, photos, etc...) count

Features

• Analyze user data and order them alphabetically, total, and chat

Future Features

• Have clear graphs(pandas and matplotlib) to visualize the data better
• Most used words(with all friends and with each friend)
• Sentiment analysis(nltk)

Setup

To run this project, download this MessengerAnalyzer.py(preferably put it in a folder) and double click it to run the GUI, and make sure you know where to find your facebook messenger folder.

Instructions

1. Go to your facebook "Settings"(top right drop-down menu) > "Your Facebook Information" > Download Your Information
2. Request the data in JSON format and any Media Quality. Go down a little and click Deselect All and check only the Messages checkbox and click Create File.
3. Wait until Facebook creates your data and download them(usually takes about half a day).
4. Combine all the messages folders together into one folder.
5. In the Messenger Analyzer program, select the /messages/inbox folder. Ex: C:\Users\Name\Desktop\messages\inbox. Make sure the inbox folder contains folders of your friends chat history.

Technologies

Project is created with:

• Python
• tkinter Python GUI library

Challenges

• Finding the correct library/functions to loop through the folders of each person and reading/writing files
• Python dictionary was kind of hard to work with at first(accessing values, ordering them, etc...)
• First time using tkinter library

Inspiration

On a Friday afternoon, I was wondering who I text the most on messenger and all the little statistics along with it. I decided to make this little program to analyze my messenger data.

Time Spent

So far, I've spent around 9.5 hours on this project!

Bugs

If you find any bugs or something isn't working, make an issue or contact me!

I do not store or send any information. It's purely just analyzing the data on the spot!