Awesome Tool / Captions Missing from photos in ~2018

[marcSoda]

This tool worked perfectly. Your efforts are appreciated.

Note: I received no overlays from the Snapchat export for any of my memories before June 2018. I noticed that your warning in the readme detailed that your experience was similar. Just wanted to note the pattern.

[aidandenlinger]

Thank you for the thank you, it's appreciated :)

Sorry to hear about the 2018 captions, but good to know it seems to be consistent. I wonder if the filename or format for the ~2018 overlays are different, this script assumes there isn't an overlay if it can't find a png with an expected name:

SnapchatMemoriesCaptionAdder/SnapchatMemoriesCaptionAdder/adder.py

Lines 67 to 74 in cdeb302

	# Note: all overlays are pngs
	overlay = (
	overlay
	if (
	overlay := root.with_name(root.name + "-overlay").with_suffix(".png")
	).exists()
	else None
	)

I don't plan on digging into this in the near future, but I'm more than open to any PRs if someone wants to investigate and fix it!

[carlgustafsson01]

Actaully did some more digging in to this. It appears that (for me at least) there is no overlays inlcuded in the download folder from snapchat before 21 June 2018.

I'll try to reach out to snapchat and find out if there is a bug or might be a solution for this problem. I'm not having my hopes up.

[carlgustafsson01]

From Snapchat support:

"Hi there,

Sorry for the trouble.

Snap has short retention periods for most data we collect, so the fact that you do not find as much data in your download as you might expect shows that we do not store data for long periods of time.

Best,
Shane"