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license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'WhatsR: Parsing, Anonymizing and Visualizing Exported ''WhatsApp'' Chat Logs'
version: 1.0.6
doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02276-1
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.WhatsR
abstract: Imports 'WhatsApp' chat logs and parses them into a usable dataframe object.
  The parser works on chats exported from Android or iOS phones and on Linux, macOS
  and Windows. The parser has multiple options for extracting smileys and emojis from
  the messages, extracting URLs and domains from the messages, extracting names and
  types of sent media files from the messages, extracting timestamps from messages,
  extracting and anonymizing author names from messages. Can be used to create anonymized
  versions of data.
authors:
- family-names: Kohne
  given-names: Julian
  email: julian.kohne@gesis.org
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: 'ChatDashboard: A Framework to collect, link, and process donated WhatsApp
    Chat Log Data'
  authors:
  - family-names: Kohne
    given-names: Julian
    email: julian.kohne@gesis.org
  - family-names: Montag
    given-names: Christian
  year: '2024'
  journal: Behavior Research Methods
  volume: '56'
  issue: '4'
  doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02276-1
  start: '3658'
  end: '3684'
repository: https://gesiscss.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/gesiscss/WhatsR
commit: 06d7633d5d64f9028a8939d25fdca9eb04390dde
url: https://gesiscss.github.io/WhatsR/
date-released: '2025-07-14'
contact:
- family-names: Kohne
  given-names: Julian
  email: julian.kohne@gesis.org