The "winner" just had its 3000th release on GitHub, already a few patch versions past the version referenced in this article (which was published today): https://github.com/wppconnect-team/wa-version

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genshii a day ago | parent | next [-]

After double-checking some things, the real winner is actually: https://github.com/nice-registry/all-the-package-names

I made a fairly significant (dumb) mistake in the logic for extracting valid semver versions. I was doing a falsy check, so if any of major/minor/patch in the version was a 0, the whole package was ignored.

The post has been updated to reflect this.

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oconnore 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This package also seems to just have a misbehaving github action that is in a loop.

	▲	genshii a day ago \| parent [-]
		Hmm yeah, I decided that one counts because the new packages have (slightly) different content, although it might be the case that the changes are junk/pointless anyway.

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TZubiri 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Brief reminder/clarification that these tools are used to circumvent WhatsApp ToS, and that they are used to:

1- Spam 2- Scam 3- Avoid paying for Whatsapp API (which is the only form of monetization)

And that the reason this thing gets so many updates is probably because of a mouse and cat game where Meta updates their software continuously to avoid these types of hacks and the maintainers do so as well, whether in automated or manual fashion.

	▲	afiori a day ago \| parent [-]
		Considering the 18 billions price tag and the current mixing of user data between meta and WhatsApp I believe that meta has now revenue streams in mind than just the API pricing