I made a WhatsApp scraper to help people export/backup their chat history

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  • WhatSoup

    A web scraper that exports your entire WhatsApp chat history.

    • 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.

  • whatsapp-chat-parser

    A package to parse WhatsApp chats with Node.js or in the browser 💬

    • I used to use this WhatsApp Chat Parser until now.

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  • Baileys

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

    • 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

  • wa-automate-python

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

    • 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)

  • whatsapp_bot

    Uses selenium to send messages on WhatsApp.

    • I made a lil Selenium WhatsApp bot a few months ago and it's the most useful thing ever. I use it every single day, and it was so much fun to make! https://github.com/christie-cb/whatsapp_bot

  • whatsapp-web-reveng

    Reverse engineering WhatsApp Web.

    • Yeah its encrypted, you have to reverse the web app, but people already done it and you can search for info like this github the code in js but I only look the readme and code it in python, right now im making a custom whatsapp web client that maybe I will upload to github

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