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]
During maintenance of yowsup, several projects have been spawned 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
Install using setup.py to pull all Python dependencies, or pip:
pip install yowsup
You need to have installed Python headers (probably from python-dev package) and ncurses-dev, then run
python setup.py install
You need to have installed: py27-pip-7.1.2(+), py27-sqlite3-2.7.11_7(+), then run
pip install yowsup
python setup.py install
Administrators privileges might be required, if so then run with 'sudo'
- 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
As of January 1, 2015 yowsup is licensed under the GPLv3+: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.