Quassel IRC

h1. Quassel Logging

Quassel saves all logs into the database, it never forgets backlogs unless you delete a buffer. You can either scroll back in chat windows as far as you like, or you can use a tool to dump or view the logs in plaintext format.

h2. Tools

h3. dumplog

this tool (written in Python) dumps quassel logs to a file. Currently it exports mIRC format.
You can get it at

> http://tier.schokokeks.org/quassel/dumplog-0.0.1.tar.bz2

it is rather self-explanatory, telling you if something went wrong. you can run it with

*default database path (ok for most unixes)*
<pre>python dumplog.py -u username -n network -c "#channel" -o channel.log</pre>

*custom database path (Windows etc.)*
<pre>python dumplog.py -d "C:\Quassel\quassel-storage.sqlite"</pre>

**Examples:**
>*show users in quasseldb*
><pre>python dumplog.py</pre>
>
>*show networks for quassel user john*
><pre>python dumplog.py -u john</pre>
>
>*show channels for network Freenode for user john*
><pre>python dumplog.py -u john -n Freenode</pre>
>
>*dump channel #quassel on network Freenode for user john to file quassel.log*
><pre>python dumplog.py -u john -n Freenode -c "#quassel" -o quassel.log</pre>

*Note*
dumplog currently only handles sqlite databases, postgres shouldn't be too hard if requested.
this tool is not maintained by quassel staff, contact Gentle on Freenode for bugs or feature requests