From 019edd5825524dbd5574f2fcb506da0d3f3efd89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KnugiHK The default WhatsApp contact database typically contained contact names extracted from your phone, which the exporter used to map your chats. However, in some reported cases, the database may have never been populated. In such case, you can export your contacts to a vCard file from your phone or a cloud provider like Google Contacts. Then, install the necessary dependency and run the following command from the shell: In order to support the decryption, install pycryptodome if it is not installedEnriching Contact from vCard
pip install whatsapp-chat-exporter["vcards"]
-wtsexporter -a --enrich-from-vcard contacts.vcf --default-country-code 852
+wtsexporter -a --enrich-from-vcards contacts.vcf --default-country-code 852
Encrypted Android WhatsApp Backup
Last updated: 12/14/2025
+Last updated: 12/28/2025