rmyndharis/OpenWA
Free, Open Source, Self-Hosted WhatsApp API Gateway
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OpenWA Open Source WhatsApp API Gateway Features • Quick Start • Docs • API • Contributing OpenWA is a free, open-source WhatsApp API Gateway designed for developers who need full control over their messaging infrastructure—without vendor lock-in or hidden paywalls. Built on a pluggable architecture, OpenWA lets you select database engines (SQLite/PostgreSQL), media storage backends (Local/S3), and an optional Redis (queue, rate limits, WebSocket fan-out) through configuration rather than application-code changes. The storage backend is the live store for status media and, when chat-media archiving is enabled, archived chat media; other message media is returned inline to API and webhook consumers. Of the media, scripts/backup.sh archives only the local media directory, so an S3 bucket needs a backup of its own. When you create or edit an operator or viewer API key in the dashboard, you can tick the WhatsApp sessions that key may use. Admin keys stay unscoped in…
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- ✨ Why OpenWA?
- Session-scoped operator & viewer tokens
- Chat-scoped operator & viewer tokens
- ⚠️ Before you connect a number — please read
- What this means in practice
- Safe-sending guidelines
- Known platform behaviour (not bugs)
- Compliance
- 🎯 Features
- Core Features
- Messaging
- Advanced
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What this repository does
Free, Open Source, Self-Hosted WhatsApp API Gateway
Repository facts
- Owner
- rmyndharis
- Primary language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 16,437
- Forks
- 3,860
- Open issues + pull requests
- 8
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-02-02T12:14:45.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-01T11:17:36.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: api, bot, gateway, self-hosted, whatsapp, whatsapp-api, whatsapp-automation, whatsapp-bot, whatsapp-gateway, whatsapp-gateway-api, whatsapp-web, whatsapp-web-api
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