YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithread
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Allows WhatsApp users on Android to extract their backed up WhatsApp data from Google Drive.
5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2019-05-13 · latest 2022-04-24
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Or you can set your own password on Android, and therefore not require rooting. (WhatsApp gives you that option) I do that for my own backups. Download them via Google Drive [0] and then use this tool to decrypt them [1][2] [0]…
comment by vhanda · 2022-04-24 · in Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup -
> This sends an encrypted blob of all your messages to Apple/Google, and WhatsApp holds the key It is a plain text backup to Google Drive. There is no key Whatsapp holds. Google can read it all, and has revealed the chats to help the Govt…
comment by ffpip · 2021-03-14 · in WhatsApp CEO on the controversy surrounding proposed German communications laws -
You can extract it yourself. https://github.com/YuriCosta/WhatsApp-GD-Extractor-Multithre... I do not vouch for this repo, but it gets the job done. The only creds required are your Google account creds. No per-user whatsapp keys necessary.
comment by keyme · 2021-01-11 · in The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen -
There is no "official" way for you to download it. IIRC it is stored in your Google Drive under an API key that is dedicated to whatsapp (in some kind of per-app storage). I don't really know much about Google Drive API. However, I am…
comment by keyme · 2020-11-25 · in Reporting a user to WhatsApp forwards a copy of recent messages from that chat -
The local database inside /data/data/ is not encrypted. However, backups (both local backups and Drive backups) are encrypted with a key generated on WhatsApp's servers when you log in. You can access the Google Drive backup with this…
comment by GranPC · 2019-05-13 · in Adventures in WhatsApp DB – extracting messages from backups, with code examples