Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
github.com
Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
1–10 of 168 posts
Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
#2[deleted]
Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
#3This is such a sorely needed point of integration. Cool to see Peter still shipping tools. It’s such a pity meta refuses to play ball like Telegram.
Either they’ll double-down and make this even harder -or- hopefully realise that WhatsApp is likely to be a really common control plane for AI systems in the next few years. Let’s hope the Llama energy strikes and it’s the latter.
How does WhatsMeow compare with Baileys?
Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
#4This is such a sorely needed point of integration. Cool to see Peter still shipping tools. It’s such a pity meta refuses to play ball like Telegram. Either they’ll double-down and make this even harder -or- hopefully realise that WhatsApp is likely to be a really common control plane for AI systems in the next few years. Let’s hope the Llama energy strikes and it’s the latter. How does WhatsMeow compare with Baileys?
WhatsMeow is stable unlike Baileys which faces challenges with maintainability.
Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
#5I just use telegram.
Just yesterday I setup a bot which is easy via botfather
And also, setup an app (claude built it but I had to fiddle with it, it works like pagerduty) but uses cloudflate worker to push downtime/errors (via fcm) in production (from graphana) via webhooks to "full screen, by pass dnd, alerts, with loud music, this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IQBWWabuU )
I named the app "Siren".
It's not straightforward to have durable hard to miss alerts about your production enviornment but good thing is this doesn't cost a cent.
Telegram group alerts are from my teammates (small team 3 members) via bot.
And Siren is for only me as I am responsible for the backend with 10 microservices, centralized logging via graphana, alloy, loki, and for metrics Prometheus.
It's all working reasonably well for me, this makes your life so much better as you fix the issues before they turn into nightmare.
Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
#6This is such a sorely needed point of integration. Cool to see Peter still shipping tools. It’s such a pity meta refuses to play ball like Telegram. Either they’ll double-down and make this even harder -or- hopefully realise that WhatsApp is likely to be a really common control plane for AI systems in the next few years. Let’s hope the Llama energy strikes and it’s the latter. How does WhatsMeow compare with Baileys?
Don't they ban people using custom clients when discovered? I feel like I've read something on that note.
Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
#7This is such a sorely needed point of integration. Cool to see Peter still shipping tools. It’s such a pity meta refuses to play ball like Telegram. Either they’ll double-down and make this even harder -or- hopefully realise that WhatsApp is likely to be a really common control plane for AI systems in the next few years. Let’s hope the Llama energy strikes and it’s the latter. How does WhatsMeow compare with Baileys?
Don't they ban people using custom clients when discovered? I feel like I've read something on that note.
They do - but the utility is so high vs the risk (for a new number) that it’s worth doing anyway for many users and even organizations.
Just yesterday we spoke with a $50-100m ARR org org using baileys for internal messaging!
Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
#8The offline search with FTS5 is really nice. I have years of WhatsApp history and searching for anything in the app is painfully slow. Being able to just grep through everything locally would be a huge upgrade.
How far back does the backfill actually go? Does it pull your full history from the primary device or is there some limit?
Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
#9for some reason, I don't like this guy.
Re: Wacli – WhatsApp CLI
#10I wish it mentioned how safe this is. Some years ago I got banned for just logging in with a third-party client, without sending any messages. Given how critical WhatsApp is for some people, and how permanent the bans are, that's a big risk.