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Dev tools · March 6, 2023

WAHA

Unofficial self-hosted WhatsApp HTTP API

WAHA launched on March 6, 2023 with 5 votes, #2,445 of 5,007 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

WAHA - Unofficial self-hosted WhatsApp HTTP API that you can install on your own server and run in less than 5 minutes! It's an open source project!

WAHA - WhatsApp API that you can run in a click!

WAHA is 100% free and open source , with no limits on messages or time, and no license expiration! No strings attached to suspicious SaaS WhatsApp API solutions. Install it on your own server! Use your favorite language - Python, JavaScript, PHP, C#, Clojure, or PowerShell. PowerShell, really? Are you insane?! Choose another language, dude. You can easily run 1 session to automate your WhatsApp and scale it to 500 sessions to provide a SaaS solution! You can run the API in a click!* Documentation has many examples and how-to guides. *It's actually "a command", not a click. Under the hood it runs a real instance of WhatsApp Web to avoid getting blocked. WhatsApp does not allow bots or…from waha.devlike.pro

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