Varun Patel

If you don't want to host this on your personal device, there is no _free_ alternative that I am aware of. You can look into hosting with an AWS MacOS...

Try using Python 3.9 rather than 3.10, it lacks support for older PyQt5 versions. Let me know how that works out.

When you updated, did you create a new venv and activate it with 3.9 rather than 3.10. Because in your error message, it looks like python3.10 is running.

In that case, try updating your pip version and then install with version 5.15.3 of PyQt5, you can try with other package versions.

Yeah is this is progress, so go into the requirements.txt file and remove all the PyQt5 lines and, while still with an activated venv, run the dependency download command to...

Make sure your Terminal has permissions to access files in your /Library folder. Follow the permissions directions in the README. Also make sure you have iMessage setup and running on...

Was the Venv activated? This issue would've popped up earlier. Activate your venv and run pip freeze in your command line to double check you have all the dependencies.

What version of MacOS are you running on? I think with Ventura the location where the messages were saved has been altered. If this is the case, I am unfortunately...

Yep, the code should be able to work on Monterey. Although, I had to create some modifications with sending images and other files due to AppleScript being partially broken with...

Ah yeah, make sure you're running a Rosetta Terminal. Since the project uses PyQt5 it needs the i386 architecture. Heres a good link on how to set that up: https://www.courier.com/blog/tips-and-tricks-to-setup-your-apple-m1-for-development/