Whatsapp Wrapper

A small wrapper around whatsapp web API using https://github.com/mukulhase/WebWhatsapp-Wrapper with clear instructions on how to install properly.

Installation

System Setup:

1. Download Firefox 61.0.2: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntuzilla/files/mozilla/apt/pool/main/f/firefox-mozilla-build/firefox-mozilla-build_61.0.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb/download
2. Uninstall Firefox if its already installed: sudo apt-get purge firefox
3. Remove any Mozilla configuration folder in home (~) if it exists otherwise it will keep crashing the browser: sudo rm -rf .mozilla
4. Extract and then install using: sudo dpkg -i firefox-mozilla-build_61.0.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
5. Download Geckodriver 0.21: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/tag/v0.21.0
6. Put it in path or move it to: sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin/
7. Open firefox and go to about:profiles
8. Create a new profile, say name: whatsapp-user and then Copy that profile path, example: /home/slapbot/.mozilla/firefox/xf0clnwz.whatsapp-user
9. Open the profile and sign-in to https://web.whatsapp.com

Application Setup

1. Clone this github repo: https://github.com/wrap-away/whatsapp-wrapper/
2. Cd in to the folder and create a virtualenv: virtualenv whatsapp-wrapper-env
3. Activate the env: source whatsapp-wrapper-env/bin/activate
4. Install WebWhatsapp-Wrapper from Github and not the pip: pip install https://github.com/mukulhase/WebWhatsapp-Wrapper/archive/master.zip
5. Install numpy: pip install numpy
6. Copy that profile_path name to index.py with has an existing example to showcase.

Usage

Instantiate the wrapper:

from whatsapp_wrapper import WhatsappWrapper


profile_path = "/home/slapbot/.mozilla/firefox/xf0clnwz.whatsapp-user"
ww = WhatsappWrapper(profile_path)

Get all chats (Its necessary to get specific chat_ids in order to read/send messages:

chats = ww.get_all_chats()
chats[0].send_message("Saaaar!")