How to download all GroupMe messages

This article describes how to export all of your GroupMe messages into a .csv file.

Requirements

Python 2.7. The scripts on github require 2.7.  If you do not already have it, download it here: https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/.  When you install it, be sure to select the option Add phython.exe to Path.

GroupMe Access Token - Login to https://dev.groupme.com/, and click Access Token in the top right corner of your screen.

Groupme_stats scripts - Download all files here: https://github.com/youyanggu/groupme_stats.  Once you download them, extract them to your workstation.

Instructions

Open a command prompt and execute the following command to install the requests package.

easy_install.exe requests

Change the below command to fit your needs and then execute it.

python C:\Temp\groupme_stats-master\retrieve_msgs.py  -a -c C:\temp\Output.csv

Finished