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Tarek edited this page Apr 22, 2019
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Yowsup is a Python library that enables you to build application that use WhatsApp service. 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 clients.
Here is what you need to read to get started with Yowsup (Or quickly jump to installation) :
- Requires Python 2.6-3.7
- Required Python packages:
python-dateutil,python-axolotl>=0.1.39,six==1.10,consonance - Required Python packages for yowsup-cli:
argparse
Install using setup.py to satisfy all python dependencies.
sudo python setup.py install
Because of a bug with python-dateutil package, you might get permission error for some dateutil file called requires.txt when use Yowsup (see this bug report) to fix you'll need to chmod 644 that file.