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chats

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chats

Read when: listing known chats or resolving one chat from the local store.

wacli chats reads chat rows from wacli.db. It can use session-backed PN/LID mappings to make historical @lid chat rows display as phone-number chats when possible.

#Commands

wacli chats list [--query TEXT] [--limit N]
wacli chats show --jid JID

#Notes

  • list is local and sorted by newest known message timestamp.
  • --query filters by chat name or JID.
  • show accepts the stored JID. If a phone JID maps to a historical @lid row, it can show that row too.
  • Run wacli sync or wacli contacts refresh to improve chat names.

#Examples

wacli chats list
wacli chats list --query family --limit 20
wacli chats show --jid 1234567890@s.whatsapp.net