Pass in names of contacts and this script will create a table of messages received from those people according to date. $ruby texting.rb "Sam Smith" "Bobby Lynch" "Julia Roberts"

texting.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# usage:
# 	$ ruby texting.rb ["<Name>", ...]
#
# There should be a folder called SMSBackups with XML files created by SMS Backup Tool for Android.
#
# example:
#	$ ruby texting.rb "Sam Smith" "Bobby Lynch" "Julia Roberts"

# now it maps top 5 thoughts

require 'nokogiri'
require 'ridic'

return if ARGV.size < 1

users = ARGV
months = {}

Dir['SMSBackups/*'].each do |dir|
	f = File.open(dir)
	doc = Nokogiri::XML(f)
	f.close

	k = doc.css("sms")
	k.each do |message|
		str_date = message.attributes["date"].value
		str_user = message.attributes["contact_name"].value
		type = message.attributes["type"].value.to_i
		text = message.attributes["body"].value

		# type 1 is received
		# type 2 is sent

		next unless users.include? str_user and type == 1

		date = Time.at(str_date[0..-4].to_i).strftime('%m/%d')
		months[date] ||= {}
		months[date][str_user] ||= {}
		months[date][str_user]["messages"] = {}

		next if months[date][str_user]["messages"][str_date] == 1

		tertiary = RiDic.category_distribution text
		tertiary.each_pair do |cat, count|
			months[date][str_user][cat] ||= 0
			months[date][str_user][cat] += count
		end

		months[date][str_user]["messages"][str_date] = 1
	end
end

f = File.new('report.txt', 'w+')
f.print "Date"
users.each do |user|
	f.print "\t", user
end
f.print "\n"

months.each_pair do |date, texted_users|
	f.print date
	users.each do |user|
		if texted_users.include? user
			texted_users[user].delete "messages"
			f.print "\t", texted_users[user].sort_by {|cat, num| num}.reverse.take(5).inspect
		else
			f.print "\t", 0
		end
	end
	f.print "\n"
end
f.close