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Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones by jorislacance on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:42AM (#26889557)
What was interesting in my writing is that a simple API request quota could be preventing me from scraping this much.
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Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones by edsouza on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:05PM (#26892350)
Not sure why you are webscraping, there is a Whatsapp business API you can use to gather a lot more information.

Here is a github repo that implements it, including generating text QR code.

https://github.com/Rhymen/go-whatsapp

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