How to Download the WhatsApp Contacts Which is Used on Your Mac or Windows PC
We can use the WhatsApp messenger on Mac/ Windows PC provided the WhatsApp app which is running on a mobile phone that is not an iPhone. On desktop go to web.whatsapp.com, scan the QR code on the screen with WhatsApp on your phone and send or receive the messages to any of your WhatsApp contacts instantly from the computer.
WhatsApp will also supports the desktop notifications in Google Chrome so we can read the messages even if the WhatsApp web app is open in some background tab. The other benefit with Watsapp is that we can send the pictures from desktop/ DSLR SD card without transfering the bulk files to your mobile. There is no support for sending audio/ video files. The other limitation is that your mobile phone should be connected to the Internet to use WhatsApp on the web.
If you right-click on the profile picture of any WhatsApp contact, you will get a link that looks as below
https://web.whatsapp.com/pp?t=s&u=919760008596
Here the number represents the phone number of our contact with the country code and (t=s) represents the size of the picture thumbnail. If you replace t=s in the URL with t=l, you will get the bigger version profile picture of that contact.
How to Save your WhatsApp Address Book Locally
The WhatsApp app does not have an option to download the profile images there is an option to export your WhatsApp Contacts for uploading into other address books like Google Contacts/ LinkedIn. However, the contacts data can be extracted easily, rather scraped, from the WhatsApp website in less than a minute with the help of a bookmarklet.
Drag the WhatsApp bookmarklet to the toolbar of your Google Chrome to get started. Next open the web.whatsapp.com on your computer, and wait for the website to load and click on the bookmarklet in the toolbar. You can either choose to have a CSV list of WhatsApp contacts or you can create a print-ready address book of WhatsApp network. This will have the high-res profiles pictures, the names and the telephone numbers of all your contacts.
The image URLs of WhatsApp are session-based and they cannot be shared. However You can press Ctrl+S/ Cmd+S on Mac to download the entire web page created by the bookmarklet and permanently it will download the profile pictures to computer also.
The WhatsApps app UI itself is written in React, a JS library from Facebook.
We can use the WhatsApp messenger on Mac/ Windows PC provided the WhatsApp app which is running on a mobile phone that is not an iPhone. On desktop go to web.whatsapp.com, scan the QR code on the screen with WhatsApp on your phone and send or receive the messages to any of your WhatsApp contacts instantly from the computer.
WhatsApp will also supports the desktop notifications in Google Chrome so we can read the messages even if the WhatsApp web app is open in some background tab. The other benefit with Watsapp is that we can send the pictures from desktop/ DSLR SD card without transfering the bulk files to your mobile. There is no support for sending audio/ video files. The other limitation is that your mobile phone should be connected to the Internet to use WhatsApp on the web.
If you right-click on the profile picture of any WhatsApp contact, you will get a link that looks as below
https://web.whatsapp.com/pp?t=s&u=919760008596
Here the number represents the phone number of our contact with the country code and (t=s) represents the size of the picture thumbnail. If you replace t=s in the URL with t=l, you will get the bigger version profile picture of that contact.
How to Save your WhatsApp Address Book Locally
The WhatsApp app does not have an option to download the profile images there is an option to export your WhatsApp Contacts for uploading into other address books like Google Contacts/ LinkedIn. However, the contacts data can be extracted easily, rather scraped, from the WhatsApp website in less than a minute with the help of a bookmarklet.
Drag the WhatsApp bookmarklet to the toolbar of your Google Chrome to get started. Next open the web.whatsapp.com on your computer, and wait for the website to load and click on the bookmarklet in the toolbar. You can either choose to have a CSV list of WhatsApp contacts or you can create a print-ready address book of WhatsApp network. This will have the high-res profiles pictures, the names and the telephone numbers of all your contacts.
The image URLs of WhatsApp are session-based and they cannot be shared. However You can press Ctrl+S/ Cmd+S on Mac to download the entire web page created by the bookmarklet and permanently it will download the profile pictures to computer also.
The WhatsApps app UI itself is written in React, a JS library from Facebook.
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