How to use YOWSUP (The python WhatsApp library) in ubuntu

Updated 4/June/2019

Yowsup is a python library that allows you to login and use the WhatsApp service and provides you with all capabilities of an official WhatsApp client, allowing you to create a full-fledged custom WhatsApp client.

Installation

sudo apt-get update

Prepare the system with the necessary components to Yowsup

sudo apt-get install python-dateutil

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

sudo apt-get install python-dev

sudo apt-get install libevent-dev

sudo apt-get install ncurses-dev

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Download the library with the command

git clone git://github.com/tgalal/yowsup.git

Navigate to the folder

cd yowsup

and install the library with the command

sudo python setup.py install

Registration

After installing the library we have to register the device to use WhatsApp. Yowsup comes with a cross platform command-line frontend called yowsup-cli. It provides you with the options of registration, and provides a few demos such as a command line client.

• • First of all create a file vim dexMD5.py
  • Now paste the code from this file.
  • Then save and quit the file.

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• Now, Download latest version of WhatsApp from here
• Copy the Downloaded WhatsApp.apk to current directory.
• pip install pyaxmlparser
• Run the command python dexMD5.py WhatsApp.apk
• You will get the output like

Version: 2.17.344
ClassesDex: OxVSHnBDYNBZmSiYzwF9+A==

• You have to write that in

  yowsup/env/env_android.py

  (replacing _MD5_CLASSES and _VERSION vars) then run:

• python setup.py build

• python setup.py install

WhatsApp registration involves 2 steps. First you need to request a registration code. And then you resume the registration with code you got.

Request a code with command

python yowsup-cli registration --requestcode sms --phone 91xxxxxxxxxx --cc 91 --mcc 222 --mnc 10 -E android

Please add country code as well before mobile no.

Replace with your data ,

cc is your country code in this example 91 is for India,

mcc is Mobile Country Code check your here

mnc is Mobile Network Code check your here

You should receive on your phone a sms message with a code like xxx-xxx

Send a message to request registration with this command, (replace xxx-xxx with code you received)

python yowsup-cli registration --register xxx-xxx --phone 91xxxxxxxxxx --cc 91 -E android

If all goes well, we should get a message like this

{
    "__version__": 1,
    "cc": "91",
    "client_static_keypair": "4LwtAptoy3o7RvZKi4/8**************+8O/1YzTqcWU78M/DK1cDap104G243EkySxN7eQ==",
    "expid": "qsufBg*******GpQV8zNTFg==",
    "fdid": "6a92d996-0c31-****-8bc1-6c8e12990dc8",
    "id": "Sow6yYuOVyGQ******vjVhwiMds=",
    "login": "91**********",
    "mcc": "404",
    "mnc": "88",
    "phone": "91**********",
    "sim_mcc": "000",
    "sim_mnc": "000"
}

Create a file to save your credentials in current directory

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vim config.json

with the above content.

Ok, we’re ready for the test,

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yowsup-cli demos --yowsup --config config.json

You can see Yowsup prompt

If type “/help” you can see all available commands

First use the ‘/L’ command for login; to send a message type

/message send 91xxxxxxxxxx "This is a message sent from Command line"

replace xxx with the recipient number

If you respond with a message it will be displayed.

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