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fbchat_archive_parser.parser.FacebookDataError

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Getting error at a time of parsing the message.htm file Related files are Attached parse_file.zip

fbcap ./messages.htm > fbMessages.txt

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/Users/coddict/anaconda/bin/fbcap", line 11, in <module>
  load_entry_point('fbchat-archive-parser==1.0.post1', 'console_scripts', 'fbcap')()
File "/Users/coddict/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
  return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/coddict/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
  rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/Users/coddict/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
  return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/Users/coddict/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
  return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/coddict/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fbchat_archive_parser/main.py", line 118, in fbcap
  fbch = parser.parse()
File "/Users/coddict/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fbchat_archive_parser/parser.py", line 92, in parse
  self._parse_content()
File "/Users/coddict/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fbchat_archive_parser/parser.py", line 117, in _parse_content
  self._process_element(pos, element)
File "/Users/coddict/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fbchat_archive_parser/parser.py", line 250, in _process_element

“An unrecoverable parsing error has occurred (missing timestamp data)” fbchat_archive_parser.parser.FacebookDataError: An unrecoverable parsing error has occurred (missing timestamp data)

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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ckshitijcommented, Oct 16, 2017

@ownaginatious Thank you so much, it’s working now. 😃

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arnaudsmcommented, Oct 14, 2017

Same problem here ! It seems that Facebook changed the archive structure recently.
Now the messages.htm file is only a few KB, and all the threads are in separate .html files in a /messages/ folder ! The whole parser is broken now…