A few months ago I wrote about building a local analytics dashboard for WhatsApp using the amazing WaCrawl project.
If you haven’t read it yet, start here:

Unlock Your WhatsApp Data with a Local Analytics Dashboard

Since then, the project has evolved dramatically.
It is no longer just a visualization of your messages—it’s becoming a complete analytics platform for understanding years of conversations while keeping every byte on your own computer.

If you’re the kind of person who has accumulated hundreds of thousands (or millions) of WhatsApp messages, you’ll probably discover things about your communication habits that you never noticed before.

Why Another WhatsApp Analytics Tool?

Most messaging analytics products have one major problem:

They require uploading your conversations to someone else’s servers.
That’s a non-starter for most people.

The dashboard follows one simple rule:
Your messages never leave your machine.

The application reads the local SQLite archive produced by WaCrawl and exposes a read-only API that is only accessible from localhost.

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