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@blckrose/baileys

v2.0.5

Published

A WebSockets library for interacting with WhatsApp Web

Downloads

766

Readme

[!CAUTION] NOTICE OF BREAKING CHANGE.

As of 1.0.0, multiple breaking changes were introduced into the library.

Please check out https://whiskey.so/migrate-latest for more information.

Important Note

This is a temporary README.md, the new guide is in development and will this file will be replaced with .github/README.md (already a default on GitHub).

New guide link: https://baileys.wiki

Get Support

If you'd like business to enterprise-level support from Rajeh, the current maintainer of Baileys, you can book a video chat. Book a 1 hour time slot by contacting him on Discord or pre-ordering here. The earlier you pre-order the better, as his time slots usually fill up very quickly. He offers immense value per hour and will answer all your questions before the time runs out.

If you are a business, we encourage you to contribute back to the high development costs of the project and to feed the maintainers who dump tens of hours a week on this. You can do so by booking meetings or sponsoring below. All support, even in bona fide / contribution hours, is welcome by businesses of all sizes. This is not condoning or endorsing businesses to use the library. See the Disclaimer below.

Sponsor

If you'd like to financially support this project, you can do so by supporting the current maintainer here.

Disclaimer

This project is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with WhatsApp or any of its subsidiaries or its affiliates. The official WhatsApp website can be found at whatsapp.com. "WhatsApp" as well as related names, marks, emblems and images are registered trademarks of their respective owners.

The maintainers of Baileys do not in any way condone the use of this application in practices that violate the Terms of Service of WhatsApp. The maintainers of this application call upon the personal responsibility of its users to use this application in a fair way, as it is intended to be used. Use at your own discretion. Do not spam people with this. We discourage any stalkerware, bulk or automated messaging usage.

  • Baileys does not require Selenium or any other browser to be interface with WhatsApp Web, it does so directly using a WebSocket.
  • Not running Selenium or Chromium saves you like half a gig of ram :/
  • Baileys supports interacting with the multi-device & web versions of WhatsApp.
  • Thank you to @pokearaujo for writing his observations on the workings of WhatsApp Multi-Device. Also, thank you to @Sigalor for writing his observations on the workings of WhatsApp Web and thanks to @Rhymen for the go implementation.

[!IMPORTANT] The original repository had to be removed by the original author - we now continue development in this repository here. This is the only official repository and is maintained by the community. Join the Discord here

Example

Do check out & run example.ts to see an example usage of the library. The script covers most common use cases. To run the example script, download or clone the repo and then type the following in a terminal:

  1. cd path/to/Baileys
  2. yarn
  3. yarn example

Install

Install dari file .tgz lokal (versi modified blckrose):

npm install ./blckrose-baileys-1.2.9.tgz

Atau tambahkan ke package.json:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "@blckrose/baileys": "file:./blckrose-baileys-1.2.9.tgz"
  }
}

Kemudian jalankan:

npm install

ESM:

import makeWASocket from '@blckrose/baileys'

CJS (destructure langsung, tanpa top-level await):

const { makeWASocket, useMultiFileAuthState, Browsers, DisconnectReason } = require('@blckrose/baileys')
// global apocalypse otomatis tersedia setelah baris di atas

Links

Index

Connecting Account

WhatsApp provides a multi-device API that allows Baileys to be authenticated as a second WhatsApp client by scanning a QR code or Pairing Code with WhatsApp on your phone.

[!NOTE] Here is a simple example of event handling

[!TIP] You can see all supported socket configs here (Recommended)

Starting socket with QR-CODE

[!TIP] You can customize browser name if you connect with QR-CODE, with Browser constant, we have some browsers config, see here

import makeWASocket from '@blckrose/baileys'

const sock = makeWASocket({
    // can provide additional config here
    browser: Browsers.ubuntu('My App'),
    printQRInTerminal: true
})

If the connection is successful, you will see a QR code printed on your terminal screen, scan it with WhatsApp on your phone and you'll be logged in!

Starting socket with Pairing Code

[!IMPORTANT] Pairing Code isn't Mobile API, it's a method to connect Whatsapp Web without QR-CODE, you can connect only with one device, see here

The phone number can't have + or () or -, only numbers, you must provide country code

import makeWASocket from '@blckrose/baileys'

const sock = makeWASocket({
    // can provide additional config here
    printQRInTerminal: false //need to be false
})

if (!sock.authState.creds.registered) {
    const number = 'XXXXXXXXXXX'
    const code = await sock.requestPairingCode(number)
    console.log(code)
}

Receive Full History

  1. Set syncFullHistory as true
  2. Baileys, by default, use chrome browser config
    • If you'd like to emulate a desktop connection (and receive more message history), this browser setting to your Socket config:
const sock = makeWASocket({
    ...otherOpts,
    // can use Windows, Ubuntu here too
    browser: Browsers.macOS('Desktop'),
    syncFullHistory: true
})

Important Notes About Socket Config

Caching Group Metadata (Recommended)

  • If you use baileys for groups, we recommend you to set cachedGroupMetadata in socket config, you need to implement a cache like this:

    const groupCache = new NodeCache({stdTTL: 5 * 60, useClones: false})
    
    const sock = makeWASocket({
        cachedGroupMetadata: async (jid) => groupCache.get(jid)
    })
    
    sock.ev.on('groups.update', async ([event]) => {
        const metadata = await sock.groupMetadata(event.id)
        groupCache.set(event.id, metadata)
    })
    
    sock.ev.on('group-participants.update', async (event) => {
        const metadata = await sock.groupMetadata(event.id)
        groupCache.set(event.id, metadata)
    })

Improve Retry System & Decrypt Poll Votes

  • If you want to improve sending message, retrying when error occurs and decrypt poll votes, you need to have a store and set getMessage config in socket like this:
    const sock = makeWASocket({
        getMessage: async (key) => await getMessageFromStore(key)
    })

Receive Notifications in Whatsapp App

  • If you want to receive notifications in whatsapp app, set markOnlineOnConnect to false
    const sock = makeWASocket({
        markOnlineOnConnect: false
    })

Saving & Restoring Sessions

You obviously don't want to keep scanning the QR code every time you want to connect.

So, you can load the credentials to log back in:

import makeWASocket, { useMultiFileAuthState } from '@blckrose/baileys'

const { state, saveCreds } = await useMultiFileAuthState('auth_info_baileys')

// will use the given state to connect
// so if valid credentials are available -- it'll connect without QR
const sock = makeWASocket({ auth: state })

// this will be called as soon as the credentials are updated
sock.ev.on('creds.update', saveCreds)

[!IMPORTANT] useMultiFileAuthState is a utility function to help save the auth state in a single folder, this function serves as a good guide to help write auth & key states for SQL/no-SQL databases, which I would recommend in any production grade system.

[!NOTE] When a message is received/sent, due to signal sessions needing updating, the auth keys (authState.keys) will update. Whenever that happens, you must save the updated keys (authState.keys.set() is called). Not doing so will prevent your messages from reaching the recipient & cause other unexpected consequences. The useMultiFileAuthState function automatically takes care of that, but for any other serious implementation -- you will need to be very careful with the key state management.

Handling Events

  • Baileys uses the EventEmitter syntax for events. They're all nicely typed up, so you shouldn't have any issues with an Intellisense editor like VS Code.

[!IMPORTANT] The events are these, it's important you see all events

You can listen to these events like this:

const sock = makeWASocket()
sock.ev.on('messages.upsert', ({ messages }) => {
    console.log('got messages', messages)
})

Example to Start

[!NOTE] This example includes basic auth storage too

[!NOTE] For reliable serialization of the authentication state, especially when storing as JSON, always use the BufferJSON utility.

import makeWASocket, { DisconnectReason, useMultiFileAuthState } from '@blckrose/baileys'
import { Boom } from '@hapi/boom'

async function connectToWhatsApp () {
    const { state, saveCreds } = await useMultiFileAuthState('auth_info_baileys')
    const sock = makeWASocket({
        // can provide additional config here
        auth: state,
        printQRInTerminal: true
    })
    sock.ev.on('connection.update', (update) => {
        const { connection, lastDisconnect } = update
        if(connection === 'close') {
            const shouldReconnect = (lastDisconnect.error as Boom)?.output?.statusCode !== DisconnectReason.loggedOut
            console.log('connection closed due to ', lastDisconnect.error, ', reconnecting ', shouldReconnect)
            // reconnect if not logged out
            if(shouldReconnect) {
                connectToWhatsApp()
            }
        } else if(connection === 'open') {
            console.log('opened connection')
        }
    })
    sock.ev.on('messages.upsert', event => {
        for (const m of event.messages) {
            console.log(JSON.stringify(m, undefined, 2))

            console.log('replying to', m.key.remoteJid)
            await sock.sendMessage(m.key.remoteJid!, { text: 'Hello Word' })
        }
    })

    // to storage creds (session info) when it updates
    sock.ev.on('creds.update', saveCreds)
}
// run in main file
connectToWhatsApp()

For example if you use useSingleFileAuthState and useMongoFileAuthState

import makeWASocket, { useSingleFileAuthState, useMongoFileAuthState } from '@blckrose/baileys'

// Single Auth
const { state, saveState } = await useSingleFileAuthState('./auth_info_baileys.json')
const sock = makeWASocket({
        auth: state,
        printQRInTerminal: true
    })

sock.ev.on('creds.update', saveState)

// Mongo Auth
import { MongoClient } from "mongodb"

const connectAuth = async() => {
    global.client = new MongoClient('mongoURL')
    global.client.connect(err => {
        if (err) {
            console.warn("Warning: MongoDB link is invalid or cannot be connected.")
        } else {
            console.log('Successfully Connected To MongoDB Server')
        }
    })
  await client.connect()
  const collection = client.db("@blckrose").collection("sessions")
  return collection
}

const Authentication = await connectAuth()
const { state, saveCreds } = await useMongoFileAuthState(Authentication)
const sock = makeWASocket({
        auth: state,
        printQRInTerminal: true
    })

sock.ev.on('creds.update', saveCreds)

[!IMPORTANT] In messages.upsert it's recommended to use a loop like for (const message of event.messages) to handle all messages in array

Decrypt Poll Votes

  • By default poll votes are encrypted and handled in messages.update
  • That's a simple example
sock.ev.on('messages.update', event => {
    for(const { key, update } of event) {
        if(update.pollUpdates) {
            const pollCreation = await getMessage(key)
            if(pollCreation) {
                console.log(
                    'got poll update, aggregation: ',
                    getAggregateVotesInPollMessage({
                        message: pollCreation,
                        pollUpdates: update.pollUpdates,
                    })
                )
            }
        }
    }
})
  • getMessage is a store implementation (in your end)

Summary of Events on First Connection

  1. When you connect first time, connection.update will be fired requesting you to restart sock
  2. Then, history messages will be received in messaging.history-set

Implementing a Data Store

  • Baileys does not come with a defacto storage for chats, contacts, or messages. However, a simple in-memory implementation has been provided. The store listens for chat updates, new messages, message updates, etc., to always have an up-to-date version of the data.

[!IMPORTANT] I highly recommend building your own data store, as storing someone's entire chat history in memory is a terrible waste of RAM.

It can be used as follows:

import makeWASocket, { makeInMemoryStore } from '@blckrose/baileys'
// the store maintains the data of the WA connection in memory
// can be written out to a file & read from it
const store = makeInMemoryStore({ })
// can be read from a file
store.readFromFile('./baileys_store.json')
// saves the state to a file every 10s
setInterval(() => {
    store.writeToFile('./baileys_store.json')
}, 10_000)

const sock = makeWASocket({ })
// will listen from this socket
// the store can listen from a new socket once the current socket outlives its lifetime
store.bind(sock.ev)

sock.ev.on('chats.upsert', () => {
    // can use 'store.chats' however you want, even after the socket dies out
    // 'chats' => a KeyedDB instance
    console.log('got chats', store.chats.all())
})

sock.ev.on('contacts.upsert', () => {
    console.log('got contacts', Object.values(store.contacts))
})

The store also provides some simple functions such as loadMessages that utilize the store to speed up data retrieval.

Whatsapp IDs Explain

  • id is the WhatsApp ID, called jid too, of the person or group you're sending the message to.
    • It must be in the format [country code][phone number]@s.whatsapp.net
    • For broadcast lists, it's [timestamp of creation]@broadcast.
    • For stories, the ID is status@broadcast.

Utility Functions

Resize Image

// Resize an image (Buffer, URL, or stream) to given dimensions
const resized = await sock.resize('https://example.com/image.jpg', 320, 320)
// or
const resized = await sock.resize(buffer, 320, 320)
  • getContentType, returns the content type for any message
  • getDevice, returns the device from message
  • makeCacheableSignalKeyStore, make auth store more fast
  • downloadContentFromMessage, download content from any message
  • makeNewsletterUtils, helper lengkap untuk kirim ke newsletter/channel
  • resolveJid, resolve LID / participant ID ke JID @s.whatsapp.net
  • resolveJids, resolve banyak JID sekaligus