Yowsup is a python library that enables you built application which use WhatsApp service. Yowsup has been used to create an unofficial WhatsApp client Nokia N9 through the Wazapp project which was in use by 200K + users as well as another fully featured unofficial client for Blackberry 10

Everything! The old library code was so messed up that I was disgusted just by looking at it. I rewrote the library from ground up with a much more robust, extensible architecture and a much simpler and easier to read code.

For devs, the update is breaking for any old code. While old code will stay in "legacy" branch for a while, it's advised that you upgrade your code. Unless your code is a full fledged WhatsApp application, migrating won't be a hard task.

Here is what you need to know about Yowsup 2.0 to get started: (Or quickly jump to installation):

• The new architecture
• Create a sample app
• yowsup-cli 2.0
• The new Command line client
• Yowsup development, debugging, maintainance and sanity

• Requires python2.6+, or python3.0 +
• Required python packages: python-dateutil
• Required python packages for yowsup-cli: argparse

Install using setup.py to pull all python dependencies

sudo python setup.py install

Because of a bug with python-dateutil package you might get permission error for some dateutil file called requires.txt when you use yowsup (see this bug report) to fix you'll need to chmod 644 that file.

Special thanks to CODeRUS, mgp25, shirioko, and everyone else on the WhatsAPI project for their contributions to yowsup and the amazing effort they put into WhatsAPI, the PHP WhatsApp library

Special thanks goes to all other people who use and contribute to the library as well.

Please read this if you'd like to contribute to yowsup 2.0

Thanks!

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