Lib.rs

A Tool to download all history of a GroupMe chat room and runs a few stats on each user's messages in the group:

Prerequisites:

1. Create an application api key for GroupMe API
   • Go to https://dev.groupme.com/applications
   • Login with your account
   • Click "Create Application"
   • Set callback to "localhost"
   • Click save
   • Copy the value at <user name>'s Access Token
     • This will be used in the settings file as the <Groupme_Api_Key>
2. Get the group chat id:
   • Go to https://web.groupme.com/chats
   • Login with you account
   • Open the developer console by following one of these steps: https://balsamiq.com/support/faqs/browserconsole/
   • Look at the networking tab
   • Find the URL that matches this pattern:
     • https://api.groupme.com/v3/groups/0000000/messages?acceptFiles=1&limit=10
     • 0000000 -> This is the chat's Id, used in settings file as <Groupme_Chat_Ids>

Output:url

Two folders will be created when run:

• raw_output:
  • This holds all the raw JSON from the groupme API, file names are the timestamp range for the file's messages
• results:

  • messages.csv:

      | createdTimestamp | userId | userName@timeOfMessage| messageText | totaldabs | favorited_by | message_id |
    

  • users.csv:

      | userId | usernames (separated by comma) |
    

  • results.txt:

    • For each user in group, this file holds the follow stats:
      • Total Likes
      • Top Liked Messages
      • Ratio of amount of messages to likes
      • Who Liked My Messages:
        • An ordered list of the other users in the group with a total like count on this user's messages
      • Whos Messages Did I Like
        • An ordered list of other users in the group with the current user's total like count for their messages

How To Run:

• Option 1: (use Rust runtime)

  • Install Rust runtime time from here:

    • https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install

  • Clone repository

  • Change Settings.default.toml to Settings.toml and add the following information:

    group_ids = <Groupme_Chat_Ids>
    api_key = "<Groupme_Api_Key>"
    output_folder = "<Relative_Path_Loction_For_Output_Folder>"
    results_folder = "<Relative_Path_Location_For_Results_Folder>"

  • Use command:

    • cargo run

  • On complete you should see an output like the one below:

    

• Option 2: (use binary file and run from command line/terminal)

  • Download binary from the releases (supports windows and linux [compiled on ubuntu 20.04]):

    • https://github.com/taylorjbrown/groupme-rust-stats/releases/latest
    • If you are using the ubuntu version (non .exe file) make sure to run chmod +x on the file after the download

  • Create a folder, add the downloaded binary to it

  • Create a Settings.toml in the same folder as the binary

  • Add the following information to the settings file:

    group_ids = <Groupme_Chat_Ids>
    api_key = "<Groupme_Api_Key>"
    output_folder = "<Relative_Path_Loction_For_Output_Folder>"
    results_folder = "<Relative_Path_Location_For_Results_Folder>"

  • Open command-line/terminal, navigate to folder that holds the binary

  • Run the following command:

    • ./groupme-rust-stats

  • On complete you should see an output like the one below:

    

• Option 3: (install from cargo package manager)

  • Have rust runtime installed on machine

  • Run cargo install groupme-rust-stats

  • Add a Settings.toml file, in current folder, with the following details:

    group_ids = <Groupme_Chat_Ids>
    api_key = "<Groupme_Api_Key>"
    output_folder = "<Relative_Path_Loction_For_Output_Folder>"
    results_folder = "<Relative_Path_Location_For_Results_Folder>"

  • Run package with ~/.cargo/bin/groupme-rust-stats

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