imessage-rich-search

cannavis/imessage-rich-search

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Full-text search across macOS iMessages including link-preview metadata (titles, summaries, site names) that Messages.app indexes but chat.db's raw text column doesn't expose. Zero runtime deps. Optional MCP server for Claude Desktop.

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Quick Install

Copy the config for your editor. Some servers may need additional setup — check the README.

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "imessage-rich-search": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "imessage-rich-search"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Or install with pip: pip install imessage-rich-search

README Excerpt

> Full-text search across macOS iMessages — including the **link preview metadata** (titles, summaries, site names) that Messages.app indexes but the raw `chat.db` text column never exposes. When you paste a URL into iMessage, macOS fetches a rich preview — title, summary, site name, hero image — and stores that metadata in `chat.db` as an NSKeyedArchiver blob in `message.payload_data`. Messages.app's search bar reads it. The basic `chat.db` `text` column does not contain it.

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imessage-rich-search

Quick Install

README Excerpt

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