This is for those of you wanting to manage a printable version of your google hangout chat history.
http://blog.jay2k1.com/2014/11/10/how-to-export-and-backup-your-google-hangouts-chat-history/
For myself, it took some serious google scouring to finally find this. Downloading the hangouts backup is easy, but I was all over the place trying to find something that made formatting the json file google provides easier. This guy's done it and I was able to get a years worth of chat logs onto about 70 pages front and back. What's nice is you can just download the .txt and avoid all the photos.
http://hangoutparser.jay2k1.com/
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