How can I use the WhatsApp API from Java or Python?

Question:

I am looking for WhatsApp API, preferably a Python or Java library.

I’ve tried Yowsup, but could not get my number registered; I am based in India and I am not sure if that has got anything to do with it.

I did try WhatsAPI (Python library) but it is not working either.

Any suggestions about this? Any users of Yowsup here?

Asked By: rishi

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Answers:

WhatsApp Inc. does not provide an open API but a reverse-engineered library is made available on GitHub by the team Venomous on the GitHub. This however according to my knowledge is made possible in PHP. You can check the link here: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI

Hope this helps

Answered By: olammy

After trying everything, Yowsup library worked for me. The bug that I was facing was recently fixed. Anyone trying to do something with Whatsapp should try it.

Answered By: rishi

From my blog

courtesy

There is a secret pilot program which WhatsApp is working on with selected businesses

https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/26000052

News coverage:

For some of my technical experiments, I was trying to figure out how beneficial and feasible it is to implement bots for different chat platforms in terms of market share and so possibilities of adaptation. Especially when you have bankruptly failed twice, it’s important to validate ideas and fail more faster.

Popular chat platforms like Messenger, Slack, Skype etc. have happily (in the sense officially) provided APIs for bots to interact with, but WhatsApp has not yet provided any API.

However, since many years, a lot of activities has happened around this – struggle towards automated interaction with WhatsApp platform:

Bots App
Bots App is interesting because it shows that something is really tried and tested.
Yowsup
A project still actively developed to interact with WhatsApp platform.
Yallagenie
Yallagenie claim that there is a demo bot which can be interacted with at +971 56 112 6652
Hubtype
Hubtype is working towards having a bot platform for WhatsApp for business.
Fred
Fred’s task was to automate WhatsApp conversations, however since it was not officially supported by WhatsApp – it was shut down.
Oye Gennie
A bot blocked by WhatsApp.
App/Website to WhatsApp
We can use custom URL schemes and Android intent system to interact with WhatsApp but still NOT WhatsApp API.
Chat API daemon
Probably created by inspecting the API calls in WhatsApp web version. NOT affiliated with WhatsApp.
WhatsBot
Deactivated WhatsApp bot. Created during a hackathon.
No API claim
WhatsApp co-founder clearly stated this in a conference that they did not had any plans for APIs for WhatsApp.
Bot Ware
They probably are expecting WhatsApp to release their APIs for chat bot platforms.
Vixi
They seems to be talking about how some platform which probably would work for WhatsApp. There is no clarity as such.
Unofficial API
This API can shut off any time.

And the number goes on…

Answered By: Zameer Ansari