A Python Client Library for WhatsApp.

The initial version of the protocol has been written with help from venomous0x's PHP Code, later versions are mostly based on the on the code in the official Android App.

The Client uses the pbkdf2 library written by Dwayne C. Litzenberger, which you can install using pip install pbkdf2.

The API is callback driven and very easy to use. See below for a simple example.

import whatsappy

# Connecting
whatsapp = whatsappy.Client(number=<number>, secret=<secret>, nickname=<nickname>)
whatsapp.login()

# Callback
def on_message(node):
	message = node.child("body").data
    sender = node["from"]

    # Print response to terminal
    print "%s: %s" % (sender, message)

    # Reply
    whatsapp.message(receiver, message)

# Register callback
whatsapp.register_callbacks(
    TextMessageCallback(on_message, single=True, group=True, offline=True)
)

One can examining of raw messages by turning on debug. Other messages are logged via Python's logging functionality.

whatsapp.debug = True

The secret is the password generated by WhatsApp. IMEI, MAC solutions do not work anymore. It should be the raw secret, not encoded in Base64. This API does NOT provide any means of retrieving a secret from WhatsApp.

The interactive shell is not working at this moment.

Released under the MIT License

Copyright (C) 2012 Paul Hooijenga
Copyright (C) 2013 Bas Stottelaar

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