Adium Top Words

Saturday 11/29/2008  –  Category: Uncategorized

I have a strange habit of periodically going through my chat logs and re-reading random conversations.  When I was doing this yesterday, I wondered what my most frequently used words were in IM land.

Since Adium log files are in nice XML format, I decided to write a Ruby script to process all my logs and spit out a display of my top words.

A chatlog haiku based on my top words:

i to a it ha
for and is yeah its have that
in be of so what

Beautifully mundane.

Get the script here.

Usage: ruby topwords.rb MAC_OS_USERNAME IM_USERNAME IM_PROTOCOL
Example: ruby topwords.rb jzting jzting@gmail.com GTalk
IM Protocols: Jabber, MSN, AIM, GTalk, etc...

It will output the topwords.html file in the same directory that you ran the script.

7 Responses to “Adium Top Words”

  1. Alexander, Older Brother Says:
    November 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    awesome!
    [high five]!

  2. dhoff Says:
    November 29th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    the a haha you is and it of for on not have in

  3. sid Says:
    December 1st, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    You always say the sweetest tings :p

  4. crystal Says:
    December 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 am

    the and it hahaha you a like haha but its im was that is so know in

    (so articulate.)

  5. mai Says:
    December 2nd, 2008 at 11:43 am

    hehe. that’s more like me. totally mundane too. (;

    oh.. and a lot of smiley faces.
    and..and..and..

  6. Thomas Says:
    December 2nd, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    Now that is neat! Thanks

  7. josh Says:
    December 3rd, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    Here are my top words:

    the you a it and that is for of in have but my be are so with its on we was just your me i’m how yeah, at :) get about do think not oh good am like up what time some out this . i’ll going been there know if really

    . . . very interesting indeed

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