iOS_sms_parser.py = Extracts SMS, iMessage and MMS from iOS sms.db.

Verified for iOS 7 - 11.3

Your data must have iOS11 messages or the script will not work

Please validate on test data!

Copyright (C) 2017 Heather Mahalik (heather@smarterforensics.com)

Special thanks to the Cheeky4n6monkey for his guidance and patience me

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

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You can view the GNU General Public License at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

Version History:

v2017-10-28 Initial Version

#v2018-04-25

usage = "Usage: iOS_sms_parser.py -d sms.db -o sms_output.tsv"

import sys import sqlite3 from optparse import OptionParser from os import path

version_string = "iOS_sms_parser v2017-10-28" print "Running " + version_string

usage = "Usage: %prog -d sms.db -o sms_output.tsv"

parser = OptionParser(usage=usage) parser.add_option("-d", dest="smsdb", action="store", type="string", help="sms database input file") parser.add_option("-o", dest="outputtsv", action="store", type="string", help="Message output in Tab Separated format")

(options, args) = parser.parse_args()

#no arguments given by user, print help and exit if len(sys.argv) == 1: parser.print_help() exit(-1)

if (options.smsdb == None): parser.print_help() print "\SMS database filename not specified!" exit(-1)

if (options.outputtsv == None): parser.print_help() print "\nOutput filename not specified!" exit(-1)

check db file exists before trying to connect

if path.isfile(options.smsdb): chatscon = sqlite3.connect(options.smsdb) else: print "Specified SMS Database does not exist!" exit(-1)

open chat output file if reqd

if (options.outputtsv != None): try: import codecs outputfile = codecs.open(options.outputtsv, "w", "utf-8") except: print ("Trouble Opening SMS Output File For Writing") exit(-1)