Parse iMessage threads?

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Hello,

I’ve looked around the Scriptable docs and here on the forums but haven’t seen anything in the ballpark for this.

Is it possible to access existing message threads and/or loop over individual items in a message thread?

Use case: loop over messages in a thread in the past 7days and save all image attachments to the device.

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I’m afraid this isn’t possible. I’d love to add support for this but Apple doesn’t provide an API that enables third part developers to access messages.

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Thanks for confirming this. I had begun to assume as much.

I ended up doing this on my Mac with an AppleScript that runs a query on the Messages chat SQLite database to find the attachment paths and copy the files over to another directory.

I’ll post my script here soon.

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