How to print your video calls list from Google Hangouts

Currently Google Hangouts does not offer the option to print video calls history (like Skype). This information is useful in many cases like immigrant Visa appplications. Now this free , open source (Source code page in Github) and easy to use tool , provides  a solution.



1)  Download takeout.zip file   from Google Takeout

2) Find your hangouts chat history file hangouts.json in folder Takeout/Hangouts contained in  takeout.zip file

3) Download hangoutsvideocalls.zip

4) Unzip  hangoutsvideocalls.zip and  copy the downloaded hangouts.json  file to the same unzipped folder

5) If you don't have Java already installed in your system, download  and install it from

https://java.com/en/download/help/download_options.xml

6) Execute file run.bat on Windows systems . In response to the Windows  "uknown author" warning choose the option allowing WIndows to  execute the file.

 On other systems (Linux etc) you can use this command

java  -cp commons-lang3-3.4.jar;jackson-databind-2.3.1.jar;jackson-core-2.8.1.jar;jackson-annotations-2.7.0.jar;. HangoutsParser >  videocallslist.txt

7) After completing steps 1 through 6 ,  in the same folder your will find the file named: videocallslist.txt  .You may now print out your Google Hangouts video calls history