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Tarek edited this page Jun 1, 2019 · 14 revisions

How do I prevent banning of my account?

There is nothing in yowsup itself that would trigger a ban for your account. How you use yowsup is what might guarantee you a ban. There should be no bans with personal/private usages on own personal devices. Setting up on a server on the other hand and/or sending bulks of messages is known to cause bans. Since this library is intended for personal and private use, no support will be given and no measures will be implemented/advised for to prevent bans. Any relevant issues will be deemed invalid and closed. Participants in such issues who try to give advise or workarounds for those bans will irreversibly be blocked from accessing yowsup on github.

How do I send media?

TODO

How do I download incoming media?

TODO

How do get online status of a number?

TODO

How do I get user status information?

TODO

How do I change my profile picture?

TODO

What is a yowsup profile?

A yowsup profile is an internal construct that tracks data and configuration associated to a specific phone number.

What data is stored for a profile?

  • Profile name. A profile name can be different from phone number/#
  • config.json
  • axolotl.db

Where does yowsup store profile data?

  • Win XP (not roaming): C:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\yowsup\yowsup<profile_name>\
  • Win XP (roaming): C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Application Data\yowsup\yowsup<profile_name>\
  • Win 7 (not roaming): C:\Users\AppData\Local\yowsup\yowsup<profile_name>\
  • Win 7 (roaming): C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\yowsup\yowsup<profile_name>\
  • Linux: ~/.config/yowsup/<profile_name>/
  • MAC OS: ~/Library/Preferences/yowsup/<profile_name>/

What is inside a profile's config.json?

You can obtain the content of your profile's config.json by looking at <profile_storage_dir>/config.json (see Where does yowsup store profile data) or by using yowsup-cli:

yowsup-cli config -pjson -c <profile_name>

I'm getting "Waiting for message, this may take a while"

TODO

Does yowsup store/maintain a history of sent/received messages?

yowsup does not store any sent or received messages as this is outside the scope of the project.

How do I get list contacts/previously synced numbers?

There is no way to fetch numbers previously synced. You'll have to manually take keep track of that in your implementation.

Can I login with the same account at 2 places (ex phone and yowsup) at the same time?

No

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