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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+"""
+Friendica account2txt
+
+This script will take an exported account file from Friendica and
+convert it into a couple of text files that contain the information.
+
+Usage:
+   account2txt [-h] [-i input-file]
+
+   -h    displays brief help
+   -i    specifies the file that contains the account data
+
+
+    Copyright (C) 2020 Tobias Diekershoff
+
+    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
+    (at your option) 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
+    GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""
+
+__version__ = "0.0.1"
+
+__usage__ = """Usage: account2txt [-v] [-h] [-i input-file-name]
+
+   -h | --help ..... displays this help
+   -v | --version .. displays version of the script
+   -i | --input .... specify the file name that should be exported
+"""
+
+import getopt
+import json
+import sys
+
+class ArchiveFile:
+    """
+    Class to hold the archive file data
+    """
+    def __init__ (self, filename):
+        """
+        Constructor of the class, initialize some internal variables
+        and read in the data from the JSON file.
+        """
+        with open(filename) as jsonData:
+            data = json.load(jsonData)
+            self.filename = filename
+            self.version = data['version']
+            self.schema = data['schema']
+            self.user = data['user']
+            self.profile = data['profile']
+            self.group = data['group']
+            self.profile_fields = data['profile_fields']
+            self.photo = data['photo']
+            self.pconfig = data['pconfig']
+            self.baseurl = data['baseurl']
+            self.contact = data['contact']
+            self.group_member = data['group_member']
+
+    def toFiles(self):
+        """
+        parses the JSON data and writes the content to various text files
+        """
+        baseFileName = self.user["nickname"]+"-"
+        with open(baseFileName+"info.txt", "w") as outFile:
+                outFile.write("Exported from Friendica Version: {}\n".format(self.version))
+                outFile.write("Database schema version: {}\n".format(self.schema))
+                outFile.write("Base URL: {}\n".format(self.baseurl))
+        with open(baseFileName+"userdata.txt", "w") as outFile:
+            for k in self.user:
+                outFile.write("{}: {}\n".format(k, self.user[k]))
+        with open(baseFileName+"profile.txt", "w") as outFile:
+            for k in self.profile[0]:
+                outFile.write("{}: {}\n".format(k, self.profile[0].get(k)))
+        with open(baseFileName+'groups.txt', "w") as outFile:
+            for i in range(len(self.group)):
+                outFile.write("Group {}\n".format(i))
+                for ii in self.group[i]:
+                    outFile.write("{}: {}\n".format(ii, self.group[i].get(ii)))
+                outFile.write("\n")
+        with open(baseFileName+'profile_fields.txt', 'w') as outFile:
+            for i in range(len(self.profile_fields)):
+                for ii in self.profile_fields[i]:
+                    outFile.write('{}: {}\n'.format(ii, self.profile_fields[i].get(ii)))
+                outFile.write("\n")
+        with open(baseFileName+'photo.txt', 'w') as outFile:
+            for i in range(len(self.photo)):
+                for ii in self.photo[i]:
+                    outFile.write('{}: {}\n'.format(ii, self.photo[i].get(ii)))
+                outFile.write("\n")
+        with open(baseFileName+"pconfig.txt","w") as outFile:
+            for i in range(len(self.pconfig)):
+                for ii in self.pconfig[i]:
+                    outFile.write('{}: {}\n'.format(ii, self.pconfig[i].get(ii)))
+                outFile.write("\n")
+        with open(baseFileName+"contact.txt","w") as outFile:
+            for i in range(len(self.contact)):
+                for ii in self.contact[i]:
+                    outFile.write('{}: {}\n'.format(ii, self.contact[i].get(ii)))
+                outFile.write("\n")
+        with open(baseFileName+"group_member.txt","w") as outFile:
+            for i in range(len(self.group_member)):
+                for ii in self.group_member[i]:
+                    outFile.write('{}: {}\n'.format(ii, self.group_member[i].get(ii)))
+                outFile.write("\n")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    options, arguments = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "vhi:",
+        ["version", "help", "input="])
+    for o,a in options:
+        if o in ("-v", "--version"):
+            print(__version__)
+            sys.exit()
+        if o in ("-i", "--input"):
+            arch = ArchiveFile(filename=a)
+            arch.toFiles()
+            sys.exit()
+        if o in ("-h", "--help"):
+            print(__usage__)
+            sys.exit()
+