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iPhone Notes extractor
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""" | |
This takes the sqlite 'notes' database from an iphone and dumps it to | |
flat text files in the current directory, preserving modification | |
times. | |
Uses 'lynx' (separate program) to dump html to plain text. | |
""" | |
import sqlite3 | |
import datetime | |
import re | |
import subprocess | |
import os | |
import time | |
encoding = 'utf8' | |
def text_from_html(html): | |
lynx = subprocess.Popen('lynx --dump -stdin', shell=True, close_fds=True, | |
stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) | |
text, err = lynx.communicate(input=html) | |
if err or (lynx.returncode != 0): | |
raise RuntimeError("lynx failed with code %s and output: %r" % (lynx.returncode, err)) | |
# Lynx leaves some extra leading space. | |
text = re.sub(r'^ ', '', text, flags=re.MULTILINE) | |
return text | |
def handle_row(row): | |
title = re.sub('\W+', ' ', row['title']) | |
fname = re.sub('\W+', '_', title) + '.txt' | |
output = open(fname, 'w') | |
output.write(('title: %s\n' % title).encode(encoding)) | |
created = datetime.datetime(2001, 1, 1) + datetime.timedelta(seconds=row['creation_date']) | |
output.write('created: %s\n' % created.ctime()) | |
modtime = datetime.datetime(2001, 1, 1) + datetime.timedelta(seconds=row['modification_date']) | |
output.write('modified: %s\n' % modtime.ctime()) | |
output.write('\n\n') | |
html = row['data'].encode('utf8') | |
output.write(text_from_html(html)) | |
output.close() | |
# Fix file timestamps. | |
atime = time.time() | |
mtime = time.mktime(modtime.timetuple()) | |
os.utime(fname, (atime, mtime)) | |
def main(db): | |
conn = sqlite3.connect(db) | |
conn.row_factory = sqlite3.Row | |
cursor = conn.cursor() | |
cursor.execute('SELECT * FROM Note, note_bodies ON Note.ROWID = note_bodies.note_id') | |
for row in cursor.fetchall(): | |
handle_row(row) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
import sys | |
db = sys.argv[1] | |
main(db) | |
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