WhatsApp Group Links Scraper: Discover WhatsApp group links from category directories and extract group names, URLs, categories, descriptions, and related details. Build targeted group lists for community research, niche discovery, audience analysis, and structured data collection.
🗂️ Category directory lane — walks curated public WhatsApp-group directories that are already sorted into categories, with 20 selectable categories plus an all-categories sweep.
👥 claimedMemberCount — the member figure a listing advertises ("500+ members") parsed into a real number; null when the listing states no figure (never a fake 0).
🧭 discoverySource tagging — every row says which lane produced it (directory or search_engine).
🔀 linkFormat tagging — modern_bare_path, legacy_invite_path or channel.
🛠️ Invite-code fix — links written in the older chat.whatsapp.com/invite/<code> form now yield the real code instead of the literal word invite.
📣 Channel links — now written to their correct whatsapp.com/channel/<id> address.
🧹 Product-page filter — whatsapp.com/download and similar non-group paths are no longer reported as groups.
🔎 Keyword lane — the original keyword + social network + country lookup, unchanged and fully backward compatible (the original input field names still work).
👥 minClaimedMembers filter and maxGroupsPerCategory cap.
⏱️ scrapedAt on every row.
💾 Real-time push — every row lands in the Output table the moment it is collected.
