rmyndharis/OpenWA
Free, Open Source, Self-Hosted WhatsApp API Gateway
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #24 of 2,503 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 1%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 10 days ago, with 73 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #36 in the weekly ranking the week of Jun 28, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a free, open-source, self-hosted WhatsApp API gateway with RESTful endpoints and a web dashboard for managing multiple WhatsApp sessions.
- Enables full control over WhatsApp messaging infrastructure with a pluggable architecture supporting multiple databases, storage backends, and cache layers without code changes.
- Use for building custom WhatsApp bots and automation workflows with secure API key authentication and webhook event handling.
- Use for managing multiple WhatsApp accounts concurrently in a single instance with real-time message tracking and group management features.
- Use for deploying production-ready WhatsApp messaging services using Docker with scalable storage, caching, and database options like PostgreSQL and Redis.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Open Source WhatsApp API Gateway
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 swap database engines (SQLite/PostgreSQL), storage backends (Local/S3), and cache layers (Memory/Redis) without changing a single line of application code.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+3,828 stars over 86 days across 20 snapshot days; best day +105 on Sep 3.
Forks
3.6K+989
Open issues
12+3
Compared with peers in API
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vxcontrol/pentagi | 30.5K | +5.1K | 75 | 10 days ago |
| NdoleStudio/httpsms | 6.0K | +669 | 75 | 48 days ago |
| palemoky/chinese-poetry-api | 3.4K | +400 | 32 | 103 days ago |
| public-apis/public-apis | 488.0K | +0 | 75 | — |
| hasura/graphql-engine | 32.1K | +0 | 75 | 36 days ago |
| rmyndharis/OpenWA | 15.4K | +0 | 64 | 10 days ago |
| Category median | 30.5K | +400 | 75 | — |
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