# venomous0x/WhatsAPI

Interface to WhatsApp Messenger

Repository: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/whatsapi
License Family: other
Last push: 2023-05-27T01:45:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5210, "days_push": 1195, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2618, forks 2088 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:04.731806+00:00)

## What it is
WhatsAPI is an unofficial, reverse-engineered interface library for WhatsApp Messenger that allowed developers to send and receive messages programmatically. The project was abandoned in 2015 after legal threats from WhatsApp, and the repository was wiped.

## Use cases
- send whatsapp messages from a script
- programmatic whatsapp messaging api
- build a whatsapp bot
- automate whatsapp message sending
- integrate whatsapp notifications into my app

## When to choose
- studying the history of WhatsApp protocol reverse engineering
- researching legacy unofficial messaging APIs

## When to avoid
- any production use today - the project is dead and legally contested
- sending WhatsApp messages in a current application
- building a chatbot on WhatsApp now

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: sdk, http-client
- domain: messaging-platforms, apis
- platform: php, cross-platform
- tags: whatsapp, messaging-api, unofficial-api, reverse-engineered, discontinued, automation

## Member repositories
- venomous0x/WhatsAPI (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:04.731806+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:20:23.416407+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:04.731806+00:00, sha 2d6dc0ceb125)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.