November 30, 2005
Chat Transcript Manager: Future Plans
Chat Transcript Manager Chat Transcript Manager was given a pretty warm welcome by the Mac users, thank you!

Now of course we are receiving numerous feature requests, and (as expected) the #1 request is "Will Chat Transcript Manager support my favorite IM app XYZ?". I'll try to cover briefly the top requested clients here and our plans on the integration:

  • Proteus: support for Proteus will be coming in next one or two point updates (this being 1.1 or 1.2). More likely in 1.1 because it uses sqlite as a backend to store the chat logs (so do we, except they use 2.x and we use 3.x. Not a big deal anyway). So watch for it soonish.
  • Fire: this one uses HTML or XML formatted logs, depending on the service it uses, so it will probably be feasible to estimate the support within 2 point updates too (likely 1.2), since it is semi-similar to Adium logs.
  • MSN Messenger: not yet ready to tell the estimate, since 5.x uses its own proprietary binary format for the log files, and we're not sure how to parse it yet. Keep the hope up, though! ;)
  • Colloquy: uses XML as a log format, so we will probably add that too at some point. No timeframe yet. If you want us to get to it sooner, please vote for it in the comments.
  • Ircle: not sure at the moment. Ircle outputs a plain text log format that can vary depending on the options user has set in the preferences, so parsing it out can be a notable pain. Again, please vote if you really want this.
  • Snak: We have received some requests, but have not looked at it yet. Vote.

All these plans are preliminary and not set in stone, yadda yadda. We will be releasing minor updates (such as 1.0.1) in between that add localizations (anyone want to localize Chat Transcript Manager in exchange for a license and a place in the credits?) and minor bug fixes. 1.0.1 will come with Italian and Danish localization in a few.

Overall, thank you for your support! Keep it coming. ;)

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Fire! We demand it! :)

Posted by: siracusa on November 30, 2005 5:04 AM

I'd be able to localise it in dutch if you want ;)

Posted by: Vidal van Bergen on November 30, 2005 7:18 AM

Dear Vidal: contact me at slava at company name dot com please. =)

Posted by: slava on November 30, 2005 10:41 AM

colloquy = #1.

Posted by: Justin Williams on November 30, 2005 4:19 PM

More reason to support Fire and Colloquy. They are the same format. This from one of the developers who designed it. The older formats for Fire are either plain text (.session) or an HTML like format patterned after AIM (.session2), but Fire now uses the .xhtml format exclusively.

I can provide you with all the documentation you could possibly need for these formats if you just tell me where to send it.

Posted by: Graham Booker on November 30, 2005 4:46 PM

Graham: that'd be awesome. slava#unsanity:com

I havent used Fire long enough to see .session log files, so that'll help greatly.

Posted by: slava on December 1, 2005 9:09 AM

I could help with a german localization. joel at gmx dot net

Posted by: joel on December 2, 2005 4:20 PM

I will grant Unsanity permission to use Colloquy's code for transcript parsing. This will get you Fire XML support too, since we share code for this.

http://project.colloquy.info/trac/browser/trunk/JVChatTranscript.m
http://project.colloquy.info/trac/browser/trunk/JVChatMessage.m

Posted by: Timothy Hatcher on December 6, 2005 4:00 PM

add xchat aqua support aswell please

Posted by: josh on December 8, 2005 7:24 PM

colloquy

Posted by: on December 26, 2005 6:46 AM

My wishlist:

Support for Skype Chat
Importin from saved iChat transcripts
German localization

Posted by: Marcus on December 27, 2005 2:44 AM

This would be useful to me if it would allow me to reconcile my conversations for the past 10 years. As such, it would have to support ICQ, although I haven't used that for a good long time. Import from PC versions of ICQ and MSN would also be very useful.

By the way I can easily open MSN (for mac) log files in TextEdit, and MSN (for PC) log files open easily in IE. What's this proprietary format?!

Good idea though guys. If it really could solve my 10-year problem of reconciling IM (and possibly IRC) conversations into one place, then it would be an instant sale, and worth more than $10 as well!

Posted by: Sho on January 20, 2006 3:00 AM

I'd also love to see support for the original ICQ history format in this thing... I still have old ICQ chat logs that are essentially inaccessible to me now. That and Proteus support (which is apparently already in the pipeline) would be a dream come true for me.

Posted by: Dan Zimmerman on February 6, 2006 12:05 PM

Support for Skype chat is essential in times of VoIP.

Posted by: gryphonent on June 5, 2006 4:42 PM

any update on when the next release of chat transcript manager (and proteus support) will be?

Posted by: Jimmy on September 7, 2006 9:03 PM

please support (1) Skype (2) Mercury (3) MSN Messenger

Posted by: piscesyy on March 14, 2007 1:37 AM

Support for Skype, please.

Posted by: Jokke on March 27, 2007 1:02 AM
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