whapa VS whatsapp-viewer

I searched a lot on this subreddit and found two github solutions: B16f00t/whapa: WhatsApp Parser Toolset v1.59 (github.com) and ElDavoo/wa-crypt-tools: Decrypts WhatsApp .crypt12, .crypt14 and .crypt15 files. (github.com)

To batch it (I think, trying it now): https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa

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.

If you are technically inclined, you can also check some free tools. I used one some times ago: https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa

You can try whapa to download your database backup from Google Drive, then you clear WhatsApp data, copy the backup to the corresponding folder in /storage/emulated/0/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Databases and then see if the WhatsApp app can recover the local backup. Note that you lost your local backups because uninstalling the app will trigger Android to clear its local data (all backups and media files)

The result is a sqlite database that can be dumped or browsed with the regular (database) tools; there are 2 projects I know of that are actually reading the data and presenting it nicely but both are broken just now as Whatsapp changed the name of some tables (the changes are only cosmetic, the data is still there): https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa and https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer .

Whatsapp Parser Toolset

I've used this: https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa awesome repository and works like a charm. Had a bit of a problem with finding my key until I rooted though.

I download from my Google Drive backup with https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa.

https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa (among other tools) appears to download it from Google without requiring any key from facebook or a rooted device.

Already tied whatsapp viewer (https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer) but it shows db file version too old to be read.

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

Whatsapp Viewer app on GitHub

The result is a sqlite database that can be dumped or browsed with the regular (database) tools; there are 2 projects I know of that are actually reading the data and presenting it nicely but both are broken just now as Whatsapp changed the name of some tables (the changes are only cosmetic, the data is still there): https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa and https://github.com/andreas-mausch/whatsapp-viewer .

(11) [Optionally:] If you want to send a message to a group instead of a single contact, you will need the precise jid number of this group. You can get it with the help of Whatsapp Viewer program.

The only way to cope with this is really ever-increasing storage on the phone (mind the sub please!) but otherwise export the conversation (I'm talking from some program that can read the db, again, major nuisance as the chats are encrypted and you don't have the key!!!) and possibly parse that to identify all the linked media from there.