[Feature] Organise WhatsApp Images into Chat Albums

[exciton]

I have searched the existing feature requests, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

It would be extremely awesome to have WhatsApp images imported to Immich into an album per each chat.

I built a prototype to do this on a server here, which has been working well: https://github.com/exciton/whatsapp-to-immich

The downside to doing it on a server is the images & whatsapp db need to be copied first, so there's a long lag, and multiple potential points of failure. Also it requires a full db backup, which doesn't happen every day.

It would be much better if this happened directly on the phone:

• No double-handling of images
• Use Contacts API to get names for Albums
• Easily copy encryption key from WhatsApp to the upload app.

I expect this feature may not belong directly in the Immich app (too specific), but this is as good a place as any to discuss how to do it.

What I'm thinking is it's a small standalone uploader that stores the WhatsApp encryption key, and Immich URL & API key and periodically uploads images organised by the Chat they are from (see repo above for SQL code to extract this).

It's also possible to directly avoid duplicates (like when someone replies to a message with an image) by filtering these using the WhatsApp db.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[bo0tzz]

This doesn't really seem like something for Immich itself to handle, a standalone tool like you mention seems like the right approach, or eventually maybe #1673 will make it possible.