General Options

This page provides descriptions for the different available options. For the most part, there are two types of

For implementation details, see the corresponding Command-line or Python usage guide.

Message groups and types

There are two ways to specify what types of chat messages will be included:

1. Message types - The value of message_type for the chat object

2. Message groups - A site-specific collection of message types. One message group contains a list of message types, and each site has a number of message groups which can be used. See below for message groups (and their associated message types) for the supported sites.

Please note that these two options are mutually exclusive. So, you may only specify one at a time.

For examples, see Command-line or Python Usage

Outputting to a file