Baileys vs WhatSoup

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Baileys		WhatSoup
	Project
7	Mentions	4
4,934	Stars	108
-	Growth	-
9.5	Activity	2.6
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Baileys

Posts with mentions or reviews of Baileys. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-18.

Baileys VS Baileys - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 18 Jan 2024
Lib para criar bot para WhatsApp
1 project | /r/brdev | 1 Feb 2023
Como automatizar o envio de mensagens no whatsapp?
1 project | /r/brdev | 25 Jan 2023
Tunneling Internet through WhatsApp to get around network data usage limits
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2022

This uses Baileys [0] which appears to reverse-engineer the protocol Whatsapp uses for it's web app.
[0]: https://github.com/adiwajshing/Baileys
Whatsapp API
1 project | /r/Python | 30 Oct 2022
Baileys – TypeScript/JavaScript WhatsApp Web API
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2022
I made a WhatsApp scraper to help people export/backup their chat history
7 projects | /r/Python | 1 Mar 2021

A better approach to this than simply scrolling through chats, is to directly use whatsapp web's api. Obviously writing this yourself takes a long time, so I tested this using this javascript whatsapp web api: https://github.com/adiwajshing/Baileys

WhatSoup

Posts with mentions or reviews of WhatSoup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-18.

[Whatsapp Chats] Is it possible to retrieve only selected messages from Whatsapp via Python?
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 18 Jul 2021

WhatSoup - exports the entire chat of a WhatsApp conversation and saves it into a .txt, .csv or .HTML file. While that would be more than enough, I want to allow the user also to only export certain messages, if required, and not the whole chat from a certain date.
I made a WhatsApp scraper to help people export/backup their chat history
7 projects | /r/Python | 1 Mar 2021

I have some general load times noted in the repo here but I'd guess that 20,000 messages will take somewhere around 3 hours.
Sunday Daily Thread: What's everyone working on this week?
10 projects | /r/Python | 20 Feb 2021

Putting the finishing touches on my WhatsApp scraper I've so cleverly named WhatSoup 😏 It lets you backup your WhatsApp chat history without any of the limitations that are currently in place by WhatsApp (40k messages, redacted messages, only txt file exports).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Baileys and WhatSoup you can also consider the following projects:

whatsapp-web.js - A WhatsApp client library for NodeJS that connects through the WhatsApp Web browser app

wa-automate-python - 💬 🤖 The most advanced Python whatsapp library for chatbots with advanced features. Be sure to ⭐ this repository for updates!

whatsapp-chat-parser - A package to parse WhatsApp chats with Node.js or in the browser 💬

whatsapp-node-api - A Simple NodeJS API Wrapper for WhatsApp

WebWhatsapp-Wrapper - An API for sending and receiving messages over web.whatsapp [Working as of 18th May 2018]

whatsapp-clone - Web based Whatsapp clone with real time private chat and group chat features.

TLImporter - 📲 Telegram Chat Importer: Import chats from WhatsApp or other services into Telegram

whatsapp-web-reveng - Reverse engineering WhatsApp Web.

WhatsApp-Chat-Exporter - A customizable Android and iOS/iPadOS WhatsApp database parser that will give you the history of your WhatsApp conversations in HTML and JSON. Android Backup Crypt12, Crypt14, Crypt15, and new schema supported.

whatsapp-verify - Check if a phone number exists on Whatsapp