whatsapp-viewer VS WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor

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.

Thank you for linking that one; seems to be a different one to the script I remember using. I did some searching, and I think this might be the Whatsapp backup script I used (sourced my own v2.11.431 APK from a mirror), and it worked. XDA thread (unofficial update fork)

You can’t set the key but I had to extract mine off my android and it was a real pain. Here’s a program you can use to extract it: https://github.com/EliteAndroidApps/WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor

I had to use https://github.com/EliteAndroidApps/WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor to install an older version which let's toy backup and extract the key.