Acknowledgments
whatsmeow
This project would not exist without whatsmeow, built and maintained by @tulir (Tulir Asokan) and contributors.
whatsmeow is a Go library that directly implements the WhatsApp Web multidevice protocol. It powers the Mautrix WhatsApp bridge and many other projects. It is arguably the most reliable and well-maintained open-source WhatsApp implementation available.
whatsmeow-node is a thin wrapper — all the hard work of protocol implementation, encryption, session management, and WhatsApp compliance happens in whatsmeow. We just bridge it to Node.js.
Relationship
whatsmeow-node is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to whatsmeow or its maintainers in any way. The whatsmeow-node maintainers have no relationship with the whatsmeow team — we're just users of their excellent library who built a Node.js bridge on top of it.
whatsmeow Resources
Supporting the project
If you find whatsmeow-node useful and want to support its development financially, please donate to whatsmeow instead. They do all the heavy lifting — reverse engineering the protocol, handling encryption, keeping up with WhatsApp's changes. Without whatsmeow, this project wouldn't exist.
Sponsor whatsmeow's maintainer:
The best way to ensure whatsmeow-node keeps working is to make sure whatsmeow stays healthy and maintained.
License
whatsmeow-node is MIT licensed.
whatsmeow is MPL-2.0 licensed.