10 alternatives to whatsapp-web.js
wwebjs/whatsapp-web.js — A WhatsApp client library for NodeJS that connects through the WhatsApp Web browser app (22,798 stars, Apache-2.0, chat, scraping, ui).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 43 licence-cleared components from wwebjs/whatsapp-web.js itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rmyndharis/openwa | 4.8 | MIT | 16,260 |
| 2 | code-chat-br/whatsapp-api | 4.9 | Apache-2.0 | 1,293 |
| 3 | secreto31126/whatsapp-api-js | 4.8 | MIT | 358 |
| 4 | devlikeapro/waha | 5.4 | Apache-2.0 | 7,650 |
| 5 | aldinokemal/go-whatsapp-web-multidevice | 6.1 | MIT | 4,944 |
| 6 | tulir/whatsmeow | 4.5 | MPL-2.0 | 7,666 |
| 7 | vynect/venom | 4.9 | Apache-2.0 | 6,595 |
| 8 | oxidezap/whatsapp-rust | 4.8 | MIT | 940 |
| 9 | wppconnect-team/wppconnect-server | 4.6 | Apache-2.0 | 1,061 |
| 10 | yagop/node-telegram-bot-api | 5.0 | MIT | 9,215 |
The alternatives in detail
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Free, Open Source, Self-Hosted WhatsApp API Gatewayscore 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 16,260 stars · 875 components · search them
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CodeChat - WhatsApp Apiscore 4.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,293 stars · 58 components · search them
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A lightweight, dependency-less, efficient TS library for interacting with the official WhatsApp Cloud APIscore 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 358 stars · 38 components · search them
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WAHA - WhatsApp HTTP API (REST API) that you can configure in a click! Multiple engines: WEBJS (browser based), NOWEB (websocket nodejs), GOWS (websocket go), WPP (browser)score 5.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 7,650 stars · 582 components · search them
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GOWA - WhatsApp REST API with support for UI, Multi Account, Webhooks, and MCP, and Chatwoot. Built with Golang for efficient memory use.score 6.1/10 · MIT permissive · 4,944 stars · 147 components · search them
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Go library for the WhatsApp web multidevice APIscore 4.5/10 · MPL-2.0 weak-copyleft · 7,666 stars · 97 components · search them
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Venom is a high-performance system developed with JavaScript to create a bot for WhatsApp, support for creating any interaction, such as customer service, media sending, sentence recognition based on artificial intelligescore 4.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 6,595 stars · 7 components · search them
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Whatsapp client written purely in Rustscore 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 940 stars · 589 components · search them
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Wppconnect Server is a ready-to-use API, just download, install, and start using, simple as that.score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,061 stars · 50 components · search them
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Telegram Bot API for NodeJSscore 5.0/10 · MIT permissive · 9,215 stars · 39 components · search them
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