Which Database to Read?

WhatsApp App's Database is Stored into private(internal) storage directory. Its not accessible with normal permissions. but help of Root Access, We are able to read data from it.

Database is Located into /data/data/com.whatsapp/databases/

It contains many databases. but we are intrested in two:

• msgstore.db
• wa.db

msgstore.db

It is main DB of Whatsapp. It contains data about chat messages, group members, groups admins, group description, media links, media urls, encryption data etc.

wa.db

It contains basic details about contacts and groups. We can get contact name, contact status, contact number, group name etc. from it.