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No such table: messages (Edit: WhatsApp databases with "message" table are not supported)

See original GitHub issue

When running the script I get following error message

Gathering contacts...(97)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts\wtsexporter.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter\__main__.py", line 147, in main
    messages(db, data)
  File "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter\extract.py", line 88, in messages
    c.execute("""SELECT count() FROM messages""")
sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table: messages

My database doesn’t contain the table messages, I only have one called message which contains the data but the schema of the table looks different from what it’s supposed to look like. 2022-02-14_22-28-04 What could be the issue here?

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KnugiHKcommented, Apr 6, 2022

I’ll try to reinstall WhatsApp and try it again, but it seems like the database scheme is changing. The new messages table has the following schema:

I can produce the same result on 2.22.7.73 and “messages” table no longer exist.

@Takepy As I can reproduce your situation now, I will work on supporting “message” table.

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KnugiHKcommented, Dec 23, 2022

__main__.py did not include from Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter import extract_new as extract. Replaced the files in \site-packages\Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter manually with the ones from the branch now and ran the script again. Now being faced with this

╰─ wtsexporter -a
Gathering contacts...(97)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 196, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\runpy.py", line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Scripts\wtsexporter.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter\__main__.py", line 184, in main
    messages(db, data)
  File "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\Whatsapp_Chat_Exporter\extract_new.py", line 206, in messages
    c.execute("""SELECT jid.raw_string as key_remote_jid,
sqlite3.OperationalError: no such column: message_media.media_caption

It should be fixed in the latest commit: https://github.com/KnugiHK/Whatsapp-Chat-Exporter/commit/d3892a4e4f4f0b533107f871a23de22153cc879a.