yowsup 
WARNING
It seems that recently yowsup gets detected during registration resulting in an instant ban for your number right after registering with the code you receive by sms/voice. I'd strongly recommend to not attempt registration through yowsup until I look further into this. Follow the status of this here.
yowsup is a python library that enables building applications that can communicate with WhatsApp users.
The project started as the protocol engine behind Wazapp for Meego and
OpenWA for BB10. Now as a standalone
library it can be used to power any custom WhatsApp client.
updated: 2019-05-07
yowsup version: 3.2.3
yowsup-cli version: 3.2.0
requires:
- python>=2.7,<=3.7
- consonance==0.1.3-1
- python-axolotl==0.2.2
- protobuf>=3.6.0
- six==1.10
uses:
- argparse [yowsup-cli]
- readline [yowsup-cli]
- pillow [send images]
- tqdm [mediasink demo]
- requests [mediasink demo]
See also
During maintenance of yowsup, several projects have been spawned out in order to support different features that get
introduced by WhatsApp. Some of those features are not necessarily exclusive to WhatsApp and therefore it only made
sense to maintain some parts as standalone projects:
- python-axolotl: Python port of
libsignal-protocol-java, providing E2E encryption - consonance: WhatsApp's handshake implementation using Noise Protocol
- dissononce: A python implementation for
Noise Protocol Framework
Quickstart
Installation
Install using setup.py to pull all Python dependencies, or pip:
pip install yowsup
Linux
You need to have installed Python headers (probably from python-dev package) and ncurses-dev, then run
python setup.py install
FreeBSD (*BSD)
You need to have installed: py27-pip-7.1.2(+), py27-sqlite3-2.7.11_7(+), then run
pip install yowsup
Mac OS
python setup.py install
Administrators privileges might be required, if so then run with 'sudo'
Windows
- Install mingw compiler
- Add mingw to your PATH
- In PYTHONPATH\Lib\distutils create a file called distutils.cfg and add these lines:
[build]
compiler=mingw32
- Install gcc:
mingw-get.exe install gcc - Install zlib
python setup.py install
License:
As of January 1, 2015 yowsup is licensed under the GPLv3+: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.