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Loosely based on the WhatsAPI and Wazapp projects that you can find on github. Appears to work in all versions of Node from 0.2 to 0.8.
Usage example:
var waApi = require('node-wa');
var wa = new waApi(userId, password, { displayName: 'Blade', debug: true });
Your userId is the Phone Number that you have registered with WA, and your password should be either your device's MAC ID (for iOS) duplicated then MD5'd, such as md5("AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FFAA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF"), or the reverse of your device's IMEI number, then MD5'd, such as md5(strrev(device imei)) for all other WA systems besides iOS.
It is an EventEmitter that will emit several events when things happen. You can call different functions within it to cause different things to happen.
At this time, if someone sends you custom image data, it'll probably crash out, as it has no idea how to parse it.
WhatsApp is a registered trademark of WhatsApp Inc registered in the U.S. and other countries. This project is an independent work and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Whatsapp Inc.
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Node Whatsapp API Client
We found that node-wa demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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