There is any reason why you choose to build a Python wrapper for a Golang binary?

I've been playing around with mcp-go[0] and it seems pretty good.

[0] - https://github.com/mark3labs/mcp-go

BTW is there a good "WhatsApp API SaaS" open-source server? There's Waha https://github.com/devlikeapro/waha which is nice, but unfortunately they don't offer "safety features" in the open-source version to lock the access

I guess it's solvable with Tailscale though

I don’t know if whatsmeow was intended for this use case: imagine a LLM performing multiple calls in a short period of time, could you risk to have your whatsapp account blocked by Meta?

The why is because we can, but damn am I finding the tools being built with, or having tacked on, AI depressing. Is this a small glimpse of the future we're building for ourselves? Communication is valuable because thought and effort went into it, lowering the bar on producing content doesn't mean more choice, it means lower quality. Already I see a reaction against this amongst some peers when they find out something they were asked to review was AI generated, why should they put effort in if the other person didn't.

Looks interesting. It would be nice to see something like this for all the communication methods in Beeper unified together. That way all communication is covered rather then just 1 app of many.

Please be aware that MCP has severe security risks associated: https://invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-security-notification-tool....

I think this is like the 7th or 8th WhatsApp MCP implementation.

I really have zero understanding why people think this is something crazy. It’s not. It’s importing the official MCP packages and wrapping basic API methods with an MCP tool decorator.

You can even ask Claude or ChatGPT to make your MCP tools for you and they will write this same code in 1 minute.

I can’t wait until the community realizes that MCP servers are literally just regular methods with a one line decorator and these posts just get downvoted for being incredibly low effort.

It’s basically the same as upvoting someone saying “hey guys, I wrote a method which connects to the WhatsApp API”, that’s it, really.

Cool work, but I'm more fascinated by your claim "99% of your life is stored in WhatsApp...".

Not even remotely true for me even if it would encompass all messaging apps I use. I guess I'm just an old introvert, but it makes me wonder how life looks like for those for whom it is true.

If this thing is connected to someone's WA and I ask "Who is your girlfriend?", the AI theoretically could list all the chats, read some messages in each chat, determine who could be the partner and return the name to me :)) I can go ahead and ask "What was the last fight about".

I am not sure about how other Whatsapp MCP servers build , but I like the design here : Go server to integrate with Whatsapp , scan the QR etc which acts like a bridge and lightsql to store some data APP MCP server : To interact with the data , app and LLM

Thank you! I live in Latin America and here WhatsApp group chats are through the roof. I easily receive several hundreds of messages across various group chats. It's not possible nor healthy to read every single message. It would be great if the tool could summarize all the unread messages from the given group chat. I played around a bit with the MCP server and it was having problems to even get the correct group chat. The group chat name could be stored together with the ID in SQLite and, if matched, it should immediately query for messages from that group chat, skipping the need to listing chats and trying to find the correct group chat and, worst of all, failing.

Why was Go necessary here? couldn't it just be a whole-python project?

Really cool project, the privacy-first angle and self-hosted design are a huge plus. Curious: have you run into any rate limits or session issues with the whatsmeow API, especially when used continuously by agents?

By the way, I was just searching for a way not to have the WhatsApp app on my phone while limiting the risk of third party software and/or have my number banned.

Is there a way to login on WhatsApp Web on a server and then proxy or scrape the messages to send them to my phone?

This is incredibly cool, thank you

what I'm most shocked about is that people choose whatsapp and the like for "end to end encryption" then open a window to small companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.

So lovely. Thanks. Now i can answer all my friends and spouse immediately instead of ghosting them for days.

Is it possible to augment WhatsApp's SQLite installation with an extension?

> 99% of your life is stored in WhatsApp

That's quite a presumption to make.

As others have already said, think about what you're doing when you use this.

If you connect a not-selhosted LLM to this, you're effectively uploading chat message with other people to a third-party server. The people you chat with have an expectation of privacy so this would probably be illegal in many jurisdictions.

could i use this to create groupchat summaries?

It is crazy how out of touch people on this platform can be. I live in Europe but have been to Asia and South America. People use WhatsApp everywhere. Just because you live in North America where everyone uses SMS/iMessage/whatever doesn't mean everyone does. I can remember my parents scolding me because they got charged for me receiving some SMS. WhatsApp was a gamechanger. You could send messages or pictures without having to think about the price of it (While being connected to a WLAN...). So at some point no one used SMS anymore. iMessage was out of the question also, because only a very small amount of people had iPhones. And everyone was scared of sending a Message because you wouldn't know if the Message would cost you or not. But everyone had WhatsApp.

For some people it is a requirement to have a social life. It is not your choice to use it or not. Network effects are taking care of that. If you think Signal or whatever is a better choice, good on you. But if you don't want to cut ties with some of your friends, prepare to use multiple apps. Including WhatsApp.

If I find out someone pipes my chat messages into a LLM, I will not converse with that person anymore.

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If 99% of your life is stored at one of the biggest advertising companies in the world you already gave up on privacy anyway...

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