How to exclude field from export

[dgassman3]

This is a great script btw, was hard to find something that did the trick. That said, due to odd characters used, the message portion of the export doesn't always format correctly. I cannot quite identify where to modify the code to exclude that field. I would be fine with just the group, date, user and like count.

Any suggestions? I had played with a few different delimiters but the format was still a bit messy. Thanks!

[youyanggu]

Line 197: https://github.com/youyanggu/groupme_stats/blob/master/retrieve_msgs.py#L197

Just remove "text.encode('utf-8')," and it should skip the message field. Let me know if you run into any issues.

[dgassman3]

Thanks for the reply. I was able to overcome this by using this line of code to set the text variable:

text = "".join(filter(unicode.isalpha, text))

It removes spaces and numbers, but for what I needed, largely got the job done.