WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor VS WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithread

I've used "WHAGODRI" from https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa to download my backup from Google Drive. However, the message database (msgstore.db.crypt15) requires a key file to decrypt. My phone is not rooted, so I am unable to access the decryption key. I have tried https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor but I did not succeed in retrieving the key.

This method is a bit dangerous, since it uses ADB and may brick your phone and also corrupt your history. I made sure I had all my chats backed up before try it for the first time. It worked, then I used again yesterday and it worked again. Cant be sure that it will work on your device, but if you want to give it a try, here is what I did Backuping whatsapp chat history without root: I used these tools back in september 2022 and worked just fine. To extract the key and uncrypted messages database: https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor To decrypt the backup databases using the key you extracted and also to visualize the databases: https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer/releases To fix the SQL tables in order to visualize in the WhatsApp-Viewer: https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer/issues/151#issuecomment-1229244368

The only way I know to bypass this limitation (and I searched a lot because this was very important to me) is by extracting the WhatsApp key to decrypt the daily backups and export the chats from there (there is an app called WhatsApp viewer that lets you read the SQL database and export to html/txt). The way that worked for me to extract the key at Android was using this repository at GitHub https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor There is also another way via rooting your android and extracting the key from the internal memory of the app. I couldn't root my phone, so I haven't tried this one.

There is a way to get your key from a non-rooted device that should still work: https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor

You don't say what OS you have on the phone. For Android you need to extract the db/key, one of the few options that work is https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor and then read it in https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer .

Backuptrans is the best solution I’ve found for this, done 3 successful migrations with it.

You’ll need to also use https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-... which makes the process easier than it used to be - no need for an android emulator or second rooted phone

It's https://github.com/YuvrajRaghuvanshiS/WhatsApp-Key-Database-Extractor . It might still work for you, actually I'm curious. I see there were some changes last year in the project, although my problem wasn't really with any of the adb interaction or that python script, it was whatsapp itself getting frozen on the device. It was installing fine, starting up and getting stuck somewhere (don't know if it was due to some local stuff in the db or from what it was getting from the server about my account). Really scary stuff, because all your data is in their hands, I mean you have the encrypted backups but they can become useless in an instant.

Correct, that's what I'm dealing with. And if you uninstall the app all local backups are lost, so you will only rely on what you have on Google Drive. That's my case right now, so I'm doing a backup from Google Drive to my computer using this tool to keep all data safe, in case it's useful for anyone else: https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithread

Or you can set your own password on Android, and therefore not require rooting. (WhatsApp gives you that option) I do that for my own backups. Download them via Google Drive [0] and then use this tool to decrypt them [1][2]

[0] https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithre...

[1] https://github.com/ElDavoo/WhatsApp-Crypt14-Crypt15-Decrypte...

[2] https://github.com/ElDavoo/WhatsApp-Crypt14-Crypt15-Decrypte...

Das geht mit https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithread

> This sends an encrypted blob of all your messages to Apple/Google, and WhatsApp holds the key

It is a plain text backup to Google Drive. You can extract it yourself, with just your google account credentials. There is no key whatsapp holds. Google can read it all, and has revealed the chats to help the govt it in multiple high profile celebrity cases here in India.

You can extract it yourself - https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithre...

> You’re referring to the optional backup that requires users to opt-in.

With telegram, if you enable secret chats, it is never backed up to the cloud. It is a guarentee, unlike whatsapp where you do not know whether your contact has enabled cloud backups

Full disclosure: I begrudgingly use WhatsApp. I really don’t like it. You’re spreading misinformation, though.

You can extract it yourself.

https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithre...

I do not vouch for this repo, but it gets the job done.

The only creds required are your Google account creds. No per-user whatsapp keys necessary.