wolfsocket

A Baileys fork maintained under WOLF TECH, adding native Group Status support — posting text, image, video, audio, and sticker updates that are visible only within a specific WhatsApp group (distinct from the regular status@broadcast story that goes to your whole contact list).

This is a fork, not a replacement. Everything in upstream Baileys works exactly the same — wolfsocket adds one new socket method on top: sock.sendGroupStatus().

Install

npm install wolfsocket

Quick start

Usage is identical to upstream Baileys — same makeWASocket, same auth flow, same sendMessage. The only addition is sock.sendGroupStatus():

import makeWASocket, { useMultiFileAuthState } from 'wolfsocket'

const { state, saveCreds } = await useMultiFileAuthState('auth_info')
const sock = makeWASocket({ auth: state })
sock.ev.on('creds.update', saveCreds)

// text group status
await sock.sendGroupStatus(groupJid, { text: 'hello from the group status feature' })

// image group status
await sock.sendGroupStatus(groupJid, { image: imageBuffer, caption: 'caption text' })

// video group status
await sock.sendGroupStatus(groupJid, { video: videoBuffer, caption: 'caption', gifPlayback: false })

// audio group status
await sock.sendGroupStatus(groupJid, { audio: audioBuffer, mimetype: 'audio/ogg; codecs=opus', ptt: true })

// sticker group status
await sock.sendGroupStatus(groupJid, { sticker: stickerBuffer })

groupJid is a normal group JID (ends in @g.us) — the same one you'd pass to sock.sendMessage().

API

sock.sendGroupStatus(jid, content)

| param | type | description | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------| | jid | string | group JID ([email protected]) | | content | AnyMessageContent | same content shape accepted by sock.sendMessage |

Returns a Promise<WAMessage> with the sent message's key.

What's different from upstream Baileys

• Adds src/Socket/groupStatus.ts, wired into sock.sendGroupStatus().
• Fixes a mediatype stanza-detection gap in relayMessage that caused media (image/video/etc.) group-status posts to silently fail to render correctly, while text posts worked fine. See CHANGES.md for details.
• No other behavior changes — everything else is stock Baileys.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. This package is a modified fork of Baileys by Rajeh Taher / WhiskeySockets, used under its original MIT license. The original copyright notice is preserved in full; modifications and additions (including Group Status support) by Briton Kiplangat (Silent Wolf) / WOLF TECH are licensed under the same terms.