rahimgujjar/whatsapp-wal-xray ? reverse-engineered prompt

Reverse engineered prompt

Build me a small Python command line forensic tool that can inspect a WhatsApp SQLite WAL file from Windows and pull out useful activity from it, like messages, edits, reactions, view once media traces, and other hidden records that may still be sitting in the log.

I want it to work as a safe research utility, so include a clean way to sanitize or pseudonymize personal data in the output, and make sure it can write cleaned logs and structured results for later analysis. Add the helper scripts for checking headers, mapping unknown columns, filtering noisy events, finding patterns, and extracting thumbnail like media fragments from hex or binary data.

Please keep it modular, well documented, and runnable from the command line with clear usage examples. If you need current Python or SQLite details, look up the latest docs online and use sensible defaults. Also include a few sample outputs or archived schema notes so someone can understand what the parser is doing without needing the original database.

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