Filters

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Date Filters

The exporter currently supports three date filters, namely, between, before, and after. All date filters are inclusive.

Usage

The option takes keywords to identify the type and therefore the format must be followed:

• Between filter keyword: -, and the format is <date> - <date>
• Before filter keyword: < , and the format is < <date>
• After filter keyword: > , and the format is > <date>

Date Format

The default date format is %Y-%m-%d %H:%M. You can change it with the --date-format option. The value should be a formatting string supported by strftime and strptime functions.

For example, if you want to supply an ISO compliant date: wtsexporter -a --date "< 2024-01-01T00:00:00.00000Z" --date-format "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ"

Example

Between

This will export messages received or sent between 2023-01-01 00:00 to 2024-01-01 00:00, inclusively.

wtsexporter -a --date "2023-01-01 00:00 - 2024-01-01 00:00"

Before

This will only export messages received or sent before 2024-01-01 00:00.

wtsexporter -a --date "< 2024-01-01 00:00"

After

This will only export messages received or sent after 2023-01-01 00:00.

wtsexporter -a --date "> 2023-01-01 00:00"

Chat Filter

The exporter currently supports two chat filters, namely, include and exclude.

Usage

The options takes one or more phone numbers as the arguments.

Note that the for both include and exclude chat filters, the country calling codes are optional.

Example

Include

This will only export messages sent by the specified correspondent:

wtsexporter -a --include 85212345678

Multiple correspondents can also be included at once:

wtsexporter -a --include 85212345678 85298765432

Exclude

This will export all messages except those sent by the specified correspondent:

wtsexporter -a --exclude 85212345678

Multiple correspondents can also be included at once:

wtsexporter -a --exclude 85212345678 85298765432