WhatSoup vs wa-automate-python

WhatSoup

A web scraper that exports your entire WhatsApp chat history. (by eddyharrington)

wa-automate-python

💬 🤖 The most advanced Python whatsapp library for chatbots with advanced features. Be sure to ⭐ this repository for updates! (by open-wa)

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Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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).

wa-automate-python

Posts with mentions or reviews of wa-automate-python. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-21.

Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 May 2022
Using python to automate sending out messages/files on WhatsApp
1 project | /r/learnpython | 3 Dec 2021

Well, yes you can. https://github.com/open-wa/wa-automate-python Check it out
I made a WhatsApp scraper to help people export/backup their chat history
7 projects | /r/Python | 1 Mar 2021

With this approach, I was able to load 10k message in about 10 minutes, with a consistent memory usage of 20Mb. I'm assuming with a python api you'd get similar results. (I used this one in the past and recommend it, though I'm not sure if it implements this function https://github.com/open-wa/wa-automate-python)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WhatSoup and wa-automate-python you can also consider the following projects:

Baileys - Lightweight full-featured WhatsApp Web + Multi-Device API

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

whatsapp-web-reveng - Reverse engineering WhatsApp Web.

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

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

whatsapp_bot - Uses selenium to send messages on WhatsApp.

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-exporter - A python script for extracting WhatsApp conversations from the app's SQLite database and exporting them as HTML or txt files.

aiosmtpd - A reimplementation of the Python stdlib smtpd.py based on asyncio.