pidgin-logparser will allow you to work with HTML format chat logs generated by Pidgin. This program is experimental and is currently capable of:

• Loading up individual log files and saving the parsed version to either TXT or CSV.
• Scanning through a properly formatted directory structure, parsing each valid HTML log file and exporting this data as CSV.

Notes:

• The path for the "Parse Logs to CSV" function defaults to "%appdata%\.purple\logs\". This path can be customized as of Build 33.
• Command-line arguments are acceptable by this program. To load an individual log use: "pidgin-logparser.exe log.html". To parse a properly formatted log folder, use "pidgin-logparser.exe +p %folderpath%". (With a trailing slash.)
• On Windows, you can also drag and drop an individual log into the executable to have it loaded.
• A properly formatted logs folder must have the following folder format "\protocol\account\contact\". Log files should be in the "\contact\" folder with a ".html" extension.
• All output by this project will be placed in the \output\ folder in the same location as the executable. Ensure you have appropriate permissions to this folder.

This program was written using Visual Basic 6 for Windows systems. Unofficially, it has also been confirmed to work under Wine 1.01 on Ubuntu 9.04.