This tool lets you read the chats of your downloaded Facebook data. Useful if you’ve deleted Facebook, but downloaded your JSON data.
The inspiration came from this repo. They also offer a hosted version of their tool to let you try it. All the data is processed client-side, so don’t about anyone reading your chats. 😁
Raw JSON is hard to read, and it’s in reverse chronological order:
Using this tool, it looks better:
A quick demo:
Clone this repo and host it via a web server.
Open index.html in your browser.
Choose your JSON file.
Select which participant you are. This makes your messages blue bubbles on the right side, and everyone else’s grey on the left.
- Do some advanced searching/filtering on the chat data in JSON format using my Facebook Messenger tool and then view the messages using this viewer
- Add a slider or calendar picker to filter dates in the chat (not supported by Facebook Messenger unless you want to spend hours scrolling and loading).
- Functionality for viewing images/files sent in chat
- text decoding symbols and emojis currently not working