alright 2.3

Python wrapper for WhatsApp web based on selenium

alright

Python wrapper for WhatsApp web made with selenium inspired by PyWhatsApp

Why alright ?

I was looking for a way to control and automate WhatsApp web with Python, I came across some very nice libaries and wrappers implementations including;

• pywhatkit
• pywhatsapp
• PyWhatsapp
• WebWhatsapp-Wrapper
• and many others

So I tried pywhatkit, really cool one well crafted to be used by others but its implementations require you to open a new browser tap and scan QR code everytime you send a message no matter if its the same person, which was deal breaker for using it.

I then tried pywhatsapp which is based on yowsup and thus requiring you to do some registration with yowsup before using it of which after bit of googling I got scared of having my number blocked when I do that so I went for the next option

I then went for WebWhatsapp-Wrapper, it has some good documentation and recent commits so I had hopes it gonna work but It didn't for me, and after having couples of errors I abandoned it to look for the next alternative.

Which is PyWhatsapp by shauryauppal, which was more of cli tool than a wrapper which suprisingly worked and it's approach allows you to dynamically send whatsapp message to unsaved contacts without rescanning QR-code everytime.

So what I did is more of a refactoring of the implementation of that tool to be more of wrapper to easily allow people to run different scripts on top of it instead of just using as a tool I then thought of sharing the codebase to people who might struggled to do this as I did.

Getting started

You need to do a little bit of work to get alright to running, but don't worry I gotcha you, everything will work well if you just carefully follow through the documentation.

Installation

We need to have alright installed on our machine to start using which can either be done directly from GitHub or using pip.

installing directly

You first need to clone or download the repo to your local directory and then move into the project directory as shown in the example and then run the below command;

git clone https://github.com/Kalebu/alright
cd alright
alright > python setup.py install 
....

installing from pip

pip install alright --upgrade

Setting up Selenium

Underneath alright is Selenium which is one does all the automation work by directly controlling the browser, so you need to have a selenium driver on your machine for alright to work. But luckily alright uses webdrive-manager, which does this automatically. You just need to install a browser. By default alright uses Google Chrome.

What you can do with alright?

• Send Messages
• Send Messages1
• Send Images
• Send Videos
• Send Documents
• Get first chat
• Search chat by name
• logout

When you're running your program made with alright, you can only have one controlled browser window at a time, If you run while another window is live it raise an error so make sure to close the controlled window before running another one

Unsaved contact vs saved contacts

Alright allows you to send the messages and media to both unsaved contacts as explained earlier but there is a tiny distinction on how you do that, you will observe this clearly as use the package.

The first step before sending anything to the user is first to locate the user and then you can start sending the informations thats where the main difference lies btn saved and unsaved contacts.

Saved contacts

To saved contact use method find_by_username() to locate saved user,you can also use the same method to locate WhatsApp groups, The parameter can be either be;

• saved username
• mobile number
• group name

Here an Example on how to do that

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> messenger.find_by_username('saved-name or number or group')

Unsaved contacts

In sending message to unsaved whatsapp contacts use find_user() method to locate the user and The parameter can only be users number with country code with (+) omitted as shown below;

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> messenger.find_user('255-74848xxxx')

Now Let's dive in on how we can get started on sending messages and medias

Sending Messages

Use this if you don't have WhatsApp desktop installed

To send a message with alright, you first need to target a specific user by using find_user() method (include the country code in your number withour '+' symbol) and then after that you can start sending messages to the target user using send_message() method as shown in the example below;

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> messenger.find_user('2557xxxxxz')
>>> messages = ['Morning my love', 'I wish you a good night!']
>>> for message in messages:  
        messenger.send_message(message)    

IF you have the desktop WhatsApp app installed, then this call will cause problems, Use SendMessage 1

Sending Messages1

This Send Message does NOT find the user first like in the above Send Message, AND it does work even if you have the Desktop WhatsApp app installed include the country code in your number withour '+' symbol as shown in the example below;

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> messages = ['Morning my love', 'I wish you a good night!']
>>> mobNum = 27792346512
>>> for message in messages:  
        messenger.send_message1(mobNum, msg)

Multiple numbers

Here how to send a message to multiple users, Let's say we want to wish merry-x mass to all our contacts, our code is going to look like this;

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> numbers = ['2557xxxxxx', '2557xxxxxx', '....']
>>> for number in numbers:
        messenger.find_user(number)
        messenger.send_message("I wish you a Merry X-mass and Happy new year ")

You have to include the country code in your number for this library to work but don't include the (+) symbol

Sending Images

Sending Images is nothing new, its just the fact you have to include a path to your image and the message to accompany the image instead of just the raw string characters and also you have use send_image(), Here an example;

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> messenger.find_user('mobile')
>>> messenger.send_picture('path-to-image',"Text to accompany image")

Sending Videos

Samewise to videos just send_videos() method;

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> messenger.find_user('mobile')
>>> messenger.send_video('path-to-video)

Sending Documents

The rest of the documents such as docx, pdf, audio etc. falls into documents category. You can use send_files() to do that.

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> messenger.find_user('mobile')
>>> messenger.send_file('path-to-file')

Check if a chat has unread messages or not

This method checks if a chat, which name is passed as a query parameter, has got unread messages or not.

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> messenger.check_if_given_chat_has_unread_messages(query="Chat 123")

Get first chat

This method fetches the first chat in the list on the left of the web app - since they are not ordered in an expected way, a fair workaround is applied. One can also ignore or not pinned chats (placed at the top of the list) by passing the parameter ignore_pinned to do that - default value is ignore_pinned=True.

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> messenger.get_first_chat()

Search chat by name

This method searches the opened chats by a partial name provided as a query parameter, returning the first match. Case sensitivity is treated and does not impact the search.

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> messenger.search_chat_by_name(query="Friend")

logout from whatsapp

You can sign out of an account that is currently saved

>>> from alright import WhatsApp
>>> messenger = WhatsApp()
>>> messenger.logout()

Well! thats all for now from the package, to request new feature make an issue.

Contributions

alright is an open-source package under MIT license, so contributions are warmly welcome whether that be a code , docs or typo just fork it.

when contributing to code please make an issue for that before making your changes so that we can have a discussion before implementation.

Issues

If you're facing any issue or difficulty with the usage of the package just raise one so that we can fix it as soon as possible.

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Credits

All the credits to:

• kalebu
• Eurico Nicacio
• Victor Daniel
• Cornelius Mostert
• shauryauppal
• and all the contributors