Roadmap
See which WhatsApp CLI capabilities are available and which work remains planned.
This page lists what is planned for wa and is not in it yet. Read it before you build a workaround for a missing
feature: it may already be on the way. The order is approximate and can change. To suggest something, open an
issue on GitHub.
What works today
wa links to your account as a device and keeps your chats in a local store: reading, search, sending text and
files, replies, edits, deletes, reactions, polls, groups, channels, people and your own profile. The guide is
using wa, and every command is in the command reference. What wa cannot do, and why,
is in not in wa yet.
The official Cloud API is available for bots, and file archives save received files with integrity checks. Invite previews, device ids, custom Lists and stored community comments are described in using wa.
Next
- Files in channels: saving one from a post, and an album to a channel you run.
- Old files: downloading a file that WhatsApp no longer keeps on its servers, from your phone.
- Business accounts: WhatsApp Business labels, and another business's profile.
- A guide command that walks you through common tasks step by step.
Later
- More files in one message than a photo and a video, and previews on sent videos and WEBP photos.
- Communities: listing a community's groups, and adding a group to one or taking it out. A group already names its community (communities).
- Your reactions in the local store: a reaction you send is kept on this computer too, as one from your phone is.
What each released version changed is in the changelog.