avoid using cover, and use compressed emoji.cache

README.md

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Note that commands involving `./android-interact.sh` are meant to be run on the
             ```
 				+ What you'll need in the end is a `resource` directory with the following subdir: `emoji,image2,sfs,video,voice2`.
 
-+ (Optional) Download the emoji cache from [here](https://github.com/ppwwyyxx/wechat-dump/releases/download/0.1/emoji.cache)
++ (Optional) Download uncompress the emoji cache from [here](https://github.com/ppwwyyxx/wechat-dump/releases/download/0.1/emoji.cache)
 	and put it under `wechat-dump`. This will avoid downloading lots of emojis in rendering.
 
 #### Run:

emoji-cache-tool.py

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# File: emoji-cache-tool.py
+# Author: Yuxin Wu <[email protected]>
+
+import cPickle as pickle
+import sys
+import os
+import imghdr
+import base64
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if len(sys.argv) != 3:
+        print """\
+Usage:
+ {} unpack output-dir
+ {} pack input-dir
+""".format(sys.argv[0], sys.argv[0])
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    if sys.argv[1] == 'unpack':
+        with open('emoji.cache') as f:
+            dic = pickle.load(f)
+        outdir = sys.argv[2]
+        assert os.path.isdir(outdir)
+        for md5, img in dic.iteritems():
+            name = os.path.join(outdir, md5 + '.' + img[1].lower())
+            print name
+            with open(name, 'wb') as f:
+                f.write(base64.decodestring(img[0]))
+    elif sys.argv[1] == 'pack':
+        ret = {}
+        indir = sys.argv[2]
+        files = os.listdir(indir)
+        for fname in files:
+            try:
+                md5, format = fname.split('.')
+            except:
+                print "Unable to parse", fname
+                continue
+            with open(os.path.join(indir, fname)) as f:
+                b64 = base64.encodestring(f.read())
+            ret[md5] = (b64, format)
+        with open('emoji.cache', 'wb') as f:
+            pickle.dump(ret, f)

wechat/res.py

@@ -214,9 +214,10 @@ class Resource(object):
         if f:
             return get_file_b64(f), imghdr.what(f)
 
-        f = try_use([k for k in candidates if k.endswith('_cover')])
-        if f:
-            return get_file_b64(f), imghdr.what(f)
+        # don't try do use cover anymore. cover is not animated
+        #f = try_use([k for k in candidates if k.endswith('_cover')])
+        #if f:
+            #return get_file_b64(f), imghdr.what(f)
         return None, None
 
     def _get_internal_emoji(self, fname):