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Sorry for the delay, I got sidetracked after class last night. I am getting the following error:

``` /content# google-takeout-to-sqlite mbox takeout.db Takeout/Mail/gmail.mbox Usage: google-takeout-to-sqlite [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...Try 'google-takeout-to-sqlite --help' for help.

Error: No such command 'mbox'. ```

On the box, I installed with pip after cloning: https://github.com/UtahDave/google-takeout-to-sqlite.git

@rgieseke Ah, that's super helpful. Thank you for the workaround for now!

Looks like you're doing this:

python elif message.get_content_type() == "text/plain": body = message.get_payload(decode=True)

So presumably that decodes to a unicode string?

I imagine the reason the column is a BLOB for me is that sqlite-utils determines the column type based on the first batch of items - https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/blob/09c3386f55f766b135b6a1c00295646c4ae29bec/sqlite_utils/db.py#L1927-L1928 - and I got unlucky and had something in my first batch that wasn't a unicode string.

Ah, that's good to know. I think explicitly creating the tables will be a great improvement. I'll add that.

Also, I noticed after I opened this PR that the message.get_payload() is being deprecated in favor of message.get_content() or something like that. I'll see if that handles the decoding better, too.

Thanks for the feedback. I should have time tomorrow to put together some improvements.

The command takes quite a while to start running, presumably because this line causes it to have to scan the WHOLE file in order to generate a count:

https://github.com/dogsheep/google-takeout-to-sqlite/blob/a3de045eba0fae4b309da21aa3119102b0efc576/google_takeout_to_sqlite/utils.py#L66-L67

I'm fine with waiting though. It's not like this is a command people run every day - and without that count we can't show a progress bar, which seems pretty important for a process that takes this long.

The wait is from python loading the mbox file. This happens regardless if you're getting the length of the mbox. The mbox module is on the slow side. It is possible to do one's own parsing of the mbox, but I kind of wanted to avoid doing that.

It's kind of an ugly hack, but you can try out what using the fts5 table as an actual datasette-accessible table looks like without changing any datasette code by creating yet another view on top of the fts5 table:

create view proxyview as select *, rank, table_fts as fts from table_fts;

That's now visible from datasette, just like any other view, but you can use fts match escape_fts(search_string) order by rank.

This is only good as a proof of concept because you're inefficiently going from view -> fts5 external content table -> view -> data table. However, it does show it works.

I am just seeing this sorry, yes! I will kick the tires later on tonight. My apologies for the delay.