My housing society has a WhatsApp group with 164 members. It's where the notices go out: water supply timings, maintenance work, decisions from meetings. It's also where those notices get buried. The export I took had 3,320 messages spread over 239 days, and when I wanted to know something simple, like when the water was going to be off, my only option was to scroll and hope.

So for Mergetober (WeMakeDevs x Cognee), I built a WhatsApp connector for Cognee , the open-source memory layer for AI agents. It turns exported chats into memory you can ask questions of, and the answers come back with who said what and on which day.

Issue: topoteretes/cognee#5836

Pull request: topoteretes/cognee-community#471

Why an export and not an API

WhatsApp has no API for reading your personal or group chat history. The WhatsApp Business Platform is for businesses messaging their customers, not for reading a residents' group you happen to be in.…