tulir / whatsmeow

Is there an option or function to get the WhatsApp contact name instead of the name displayed by the WhatsApp user?

The contacts are probably also synced into the database. You can see this in the whatsmeow_contacts table.

ContactInfo.FullName

ref :

Lines 37 to 47 in 350073d

    
           // ContactInfo contains the cached names of a WhatsApp user. 
        
           type ContactInfo struct { 
        
           	Found bool 
        
           	FirstName    string 
        
           	FullName     string 
        
           	PushName     string 
        
           	BusinessName string 
        
           }

Here is how to get the contact info :

ci, err := client.Store.Contacts.GetContact(jid)
if err != nil {
    panic(err)
}

fmt.Println(ci.FullName)

Thanks, i will try it.

@JustSoursop When I delete the .db file and try to reconnect, there are some contact names that go back to the beginning (before they were changed) is there a proper handling for this?

The contacts are auto-synced by default, including the update.


	// ContactInfo contains the cached names of a WhatsApp user.
	type ContactInfo struct {
	Found bool

	FirstName string
	FullName string
	PushName string
	BusinessName string
	}

WhatsApp Name from Local Contact