Whatsapp using Python!

October 23, 2020

Whatsapp using Python!

Developer’s can automate the browser’s activity with a very smart package in python called Selenium. We can make use of whatsapp-web through the browser by using this.

Requirements

We require three basic things to get things fulfill: Selenium.

Install selenium using pip by running the below command on your terminal −

$pip install selenium

Chrome/firefox or any other webdriver.

As I using chrome webdriver, below is a link to download chrome webdriver as per your os.

https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.46/
Whatsapp account.

Create Whatsapp account.

Below code is an example to send whatsapp message using python to specific contacts.

Example

from selenium importwebdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.uiimportWebDriverWait 
from selenium.webdriver.supportimportexpected_conditions as EC 
from selenium.webdriver.common.keysimportKeys 
from selenium.webdriver.common.byimportBy 
import time 
import sys
#Replace below path with the absolute path of the \ 
#chromedriver in your computer 
driver =webdriver.Chrome(r'c:\users\rajesh\Desktop\chromedriver') 
driver.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/") 
#time.sleep() 
wait =WebDriverWait(driver,600) 
#Replace 'My Bsnl' with the name of your friend or group name 
target ='"My Bsnl"' 
#Replace the below string with your own message 
string=sys.argv[1] 
x_arg='//span[contains(@title,'+ target +')]' 
group_title=wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located 
((By.XPATH,x_arg))) 
print(group_title) 
print("Wait for few seconds") 
group_title.click() 
message =driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="main"]/footer/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]')[0] 
message.send_keys(string) 
sendbutton=driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="main"]/footer/div[1]/div[3]/button')[0] 
sendbutton.click() 
driver.close()

Run the above scripts on command prompt by passing message as argument to the whatsapp contact−

>python whatsppPython.py "Hello" 

DevTools listening on 
ws://127.0.0.1:12954/devtools/browser/a5bb04bd-66a3-4002-999f-6a0824f591da 
<selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement.WebElement(session="83e7034b9a6f6b49e9e422e655f270d3", element="0.30994636046479007-1")> 
after wait 
….
…..

As shown below the chrome browser will open with screen something like −