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How do I read whatsapp messages from a contact using python?

I'm building a bot that logs into zoom at specified times and the links are being obtained from whatsapp. So i was wondering if it is was possible to retrieve those links from whatsapp directly instead of having to copy paste it into python. Google is filled with guides to send messages but is there any way to READ and RETRIEVE those messages and then manipulate it?

You can, at most, try to read WhatsApp messages with Python using Selenium WebDriver since I strongly doubt that you can access WhatsApp APIs.
Selenium is basically an automation tool that lets you automate tasks in your browser so, perhaps, you could write a Python script using Selenium that automatically opens WhatsApp and parses HTML information regarding your WhatsApp web client.
First of all, we mentioned Selenium, but we will use it only to automate the opening and closing of WhatsApp, now we have to find a way to read what's inside the WhatsApp client, and that's where the magic of Web Scraping comes is hand.
Web scraping is a process of extracting data from a website, in this case, the data is represented by the Zoom link you need to automatically obtain, while the web site is your WhatsApp client. To perform this process you need a way to extract (parse) information from the website, to do so I suggest you use Beautiful Soup, but I advise you that a minimum knowledge of how HTML works is required.
Sorry if this may not completely answer your question but this is all the knowledge I have on this specific topic.

You can open WhatsApp on browser using https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/ in Python.
Selenium is basically an automation tool that lets you automate tasks in your browser so, perhaps, you could write a Python script using Selenium that automatically opens WhatsApp and parses HTML information regarding your WhatsApp web client.
I learn and use code from "https://towardsdatascience.com/complete-beginners-guide-to-processing-whatsapp-data-with-python-781c156b5f0b" this site. Go through the details written on mentioned link.
You have to install external python library "whatsapp-web" from this link --- "https://pypi.org/project/whatsapp-web/". Just type in command prompt / windows terminal by "python -m pip install whatsapp-web".
It will show result ---
python -m pip install whatsapp-web
Collecting whatsapp-web
Downloading whatsapp_web-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (21 kB)
Installing collected packages: whatsapp-web
Successfully installed whatsapp-web-0.0.1

You can read all the cookies from whatsapp web and add them to headers and use the requests module or you can also use selenium with that.

Update :
Please change the xpath's class name of each section from the current time class name of WhatsApp web by using inspect element section in WhatsApp web to use the following code. Because WhatsApp have changed its element's class names.
I have tried that in creating a WhatsApp bot using python.
But there are still many bugs because of I am also beginner.
steps based on my research :
Open browser using selenium webdriver
Login on WhatsApp using qr code
If you know from which number you are going to received the meeting link then use this step otherwise check the following process mention after this process.
Find and open the chat room where you are going to received zoom meeting link.
For getting message from known chat room to perform action
#user_name = "Name of meeting link Sender as in your contact list"
Example :
user_name = "Anurag Kushwaha"
#In above variable at place of `Anurag Kushwaha` pass Name or number of Your Teacher
# who going to sent you zoom meeting link same as you have in your contact list.
user = webdriver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[#title="{}"]'.format(user_name))
user.click()
# For getting message to perform action
message = webdriver.find_elements_by_xpath("//span[#class='_3-8er selectable-text copyable-text']")
# In the above line Change the xpath's class name from the current time class name by inspecting span element
# which containing received text message of any chat room.
for i in message:
try:
if "zoom.us" in str(i.text):
# Here you can use you code to preform action according to your need
print("Perform Your Action")
except:
pass
If you do not know by which number you are going to received the link.
Then you can get div class of any unread contact block and get open all the chat room list which are containing that unread div class.
Then check all the unread messages of open chat and get the message from the div class.
When you don't know from whom you gonna received zoom meeting link.
# For getting unread chats you can use
unread_chats = webdriver.find_elements_by_xpath("// span[#class='_38M1B']")
# In the above line Change the xpath's class name from the current time class name by inspecting span element
# which containing the number of unread message showing the contact card inside a green circle before opening the chat room.
# Open each chat using loop and read message.
for chat in unread_chats:
chat.click()
# For getting message to perform action
message = webdriver.find_elements_by_xpath("//span[#class='_3-8er selectable-text copyable-text']")
# In the above line Change the xpath's class name from the current time class name by inspecting span element
# which containing received text message of any chat room.
for i in messge:
try:
if "zoom.us" in str(i.text):
# Here you can use you code to preform action according to your need
print("Perform Your Action")
except:
pass
Note : In the above code 'webdriver' is the driver by which you open web.whatsapp.com
Example :
from selenium import webdriver
webdriver = webdriver.Chrome("ChromePath/chromedriver.exe")
webdriver.get("https://web.whatsapp.com")
# This wendriver variable is used in above code.
# If you have used any other name then please rename in my code or you can assign your variable in that code variable name as following line.
webdriver = your_webdriver_variable
A complete code reference Example :
from selenium import webdriver
import time
webdriver = webdriver.Chrome("ChromePath/chromedriver.exe")
webdriver.get("https://web.whatsapp.com")
time.sleep(25) # For scan the qr code
# Plese make sure that you have done the qr code scan successful.
confirm = int(input("Press 1 to proceed if sucessfully login or press 0 for retry : "))
if confirm == 1:
print("Continuing...")
elif confirm == 0:
webdriver.close()
exit()
else:
print("Sorry Please Try again")
webdriver.close()
exit()
while True:
unread_chats = webdriver.find_elements_by_xpath("// span[#class='_38M1B']")
# In the above line Change the xpath's class name from the current time class name by inspecting span element
# which containing the number of unread message showing the contact card inside a green circle before opening the chat room.
# Open each chat using loop and read message.
for chat in unread_chats:
chat.click()
time.sleep(2)
# For getting message to perform action
message = webdriver.find_elements_by_xpath("//span[#class='_3-8er selectable-text copyable-text']")
# In the above line Change the xpath's class name from the current time class name by inspecting span element
# which containing received text message of any chat room.
for i in messge:
try:
if "zoom.us" in str(i.text):
# Here you can use you code to preform action according to your need
print("Perform Your Action")
except:
pass
Please make sure that the indentation is equal in code blocks if you are copying it.
Can read my another answer in following link for more info about WhatsApp web using python.
Line breaks in WhatsApp messages sent with Python
I am developing WhatsApp bot using python.
For contribution you can contact at : anurag.cse016#gmail.com
Please give a star on my https://github.com/4NUR46 If this Answer helps you.

Try This Its A bit of a hassle but it might work
import pyautogui
import pyperclip
import webbrowser
grouporcontact = pyautogui.locateOnScreen("#group/contact", confidence=.6) # Take a snip of the group or contact name/profile photo
link = pyperclip.paste()
def searchforgroup():
global link
time.sleep(5)
webbrowser.open("https://web.whatsapp.com")
time.sleep(30)#for you to scan the qr code if u have done it then u can edit it to like 10 or anything
grouporcontact = pyautogui.locateOnScreen("#group/contact", confidence=.6)
x = grouporcontact[0]
y = grouporcontact[1]
if grouporcontact == None:
#Do any other option in my case i just gave it my usual link as
link = "mymeetlink"
else:
pyautogui.moveTo(x,y, duration=1)
pyautogui.click()
# end of searching group
def findlink():
global link
meetlink = pyautogui.locateOnScreen("#", confidence=.6)#just take another snap of a meet link without the code after the "/"
f = meetlink[0]
v = meetlink[1]
if meetlink == None:
#Do any other option in my case i just gave it my usual link as
link = "mymeetlink"
else:
pyautogui.moveTo(f,v, duration=.6)
pyautogui.rightClick()
pyautogui.moveRel(0,0, duration=2) # You Have to play with this it basically is considered by your screen size so just edit that and edit it till it reaches the "Copy Link Address"
pyautogui.click()
link = pyperclip.paste()
webbrowser.open(link) # to test it out
So Now You Have It Have To Install pyautogui, pyperclip
and just follow the comments in the snippet and everything should work :)

using generalized text to search inside html source code

I'm working on a small project where I have small files that will be fed to my program from a folder.
These files will be used to check websites for a user
so, for example, I want to look up a user on Reddit, Twitch and more sites. I could use this tool if I had the configs for the sites I wanted to check the username on.
def userCheck(link, user, isSuccess):
link = link.replace("<USERNAME>", user)
isSuccess = isSuccess.replace("<USERNAME>", user)
print(isSuccess)
print(link)
html = requests.get(link)
print(html)
page_source = html.text
count = page_source.count(isSuccess)
print(count)
if count > 0:
return True
else:
return False
outFile = open("outputs.txt","w+")
outFile.write(page_source)
outFile.close()
print(userCheck("https://reddit.com/u/<USERNAME>", "1r0nk3y", "<h1 class=\"_eYtD2XCVieq6emjKBH3m\"><USERNAME></h1>"))
in theory, my code should look through the HTML for the isSuccess variable (replaced by the username) and successfully return true in this certain case. Yes, I know I could work with response codes but some websites will give a good code for a bad user.
here's my output:
<h1 class=_eYtD2XCVieq6emjKBH3m>1r0nk3y</h1>
https://reddit.com/u/1r0nk3y
<Response [502]>
0
False
I believe the main dilemma I am facing here is that I don't want to use something like bs4 for this. it needs to be much simpler. but if a website needs a much more advanced keyword or phrase to validate it was a successful lookup, I will need to use things with quotes in them
any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Logging in to website to access data using Python

I have a subscription to the site https://www.naturalgasintel.com/ for daily feeds of data that show up on their site directly as .txt files; their user login page being https://www.naturalgasintel.com/user/login/
For example a file for today's feed is given by the link https://naturalgasintel.com/ext/resources/Data-Feed/Daily-GPI/2019/01/20190104td.txt and shows up on the site like the picture below:
What I'd like to do is to log in using my user_email and user_password and scrape this data in the form of an Excel file.
When I use Twill to try and 'point' me to the data by first logging me into the site I use this code:
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
import twill
from twill.commands import *
year= NOW[0:4]
month=NOW[5:7]
day=NOW[8:10]
date=(year+month+day)
path = "https://naturalgasintel.com/ext/resources/Data-Feed/Daily-GPI/"
end = "td.txt"
go("http://www.naturalgasintel.com/user/login")
fv("2", "user[email]", user_email)
fv("2", "user[password]", user_password)
fv("2", "commit", "Login")
datafilelocation = path + year + "/" + month + "/" + date + end
go(datafilelocation)
However, logging in from the user login page sends me to this referrer link when I go to the data's location.
https://www.naturalgasintel.com/user/login?referer=%2Fext%2Fresources%2FData-Feed%2FDaily-GPI%2F2019%2F01%2F20190104td.txt
Rather than:
https://naturalgasintel.com/ext/resources/Data-Feed/Daily-GPI/2019/01/20190104td.txt
I've tried using modules like requests as well to log in from the site and then access this data but whatever method I use sends me to the HTML source rather than the .txt data location itself.
I've posted my complete walk-through with the Python 2.7 module Twill which I attached a bounty to here:
Using Twill to grab .txt from login page Python
What would the best solution to being able to access these password protected files be?

If you have a compatible version of FireFox for this, then get the plugin javascript 0.0.1 by Chee and add the following to run on the page:
document.getElementById('user_email').value = "E-What";
document.getElementById('user_password').value = " ABC Password ";
Change the email and password as you like. It will load the page, then after that it will put in your username and password.
There are other ways to do this all by yourself with your own stand-alone process. You do not have to download other people's programs and try to learn them (beyond this little thing) if you change it this way.
I would have up voted this question.

Python Mechanize write to TinyMCE Text Editor

I'm using Python Mechanize for adding an event to WordPress but I can't seem to figure out how to write to the TinyMCE Editor in the 'Add New' Event section.
I've been able to make a draft so far by just setting the Title with some value for testing purposes but I am stuck here. What I've done so far is...
br = mechanize.Browser()
response = br.open(url)
Intermediate steps to get to the correct page that don't need to be listed...
Once on the correct page I choose the form that I want to work with, select it and set the title. Once I submit I can actually travel to my drafts section in my normal chrome/firefox browser to see a draft has been created.
for f in br.forms():
if f.name == postForm:
print f
br.select_form(f.name)
br.form['post_title'] = 'Creating from MECHANIZE'
br.submit(name='save', label='Save Draft')
What would be the intermediary steps to input data into the TinyMCE editor?

I realized that by writing:
br.form['content'] = "some content"
You are able to write to the custom textarea. Any HTML content that you have in triple double-quotes will show up as you want once you submit the post.

Python Mechanize does not list all forms?

I've been writing a program to log in to Facebook and update the status as a side project. I managed to get the program to login. However, I'm having trouble selecting the textarea that ends up being the "Enter your status here" box. Using "Inspect Element" in Chrome, I'm able to see the form under which it's located, but listing the forms in the program doesn't seem to list said form...
import mechanize
import re
br = mechanize.Browser()
usernamecorrect = 0
while usernamecorrect == 0:
username = raw_input("What is the username for your Facebook Account? ")
matchmail = re.search(r'[\w.-]+#[\w.-]+', username)
if matchmail:
print matchmail.group()
usernamecorrect = 1
else:
print "That is not a valid username; please enter the e-mail address registered with your account.\n"
password = raw_input("What is the password for your account?")
print "Logging in..."
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.open("https://www.facebook.com/")
br.select_form(nr = 0)
br['email'] = username
br['pass'] = password
br.submit()
raw_input("Login successful!")
print "Forms: \n"
for f in br.forms():
print f.name
The full output is as follows:
What is the username for your Facebook Account? myemail#website.com
What is the password for your account? thisisapassword
Logging in...
Login successful!
Forms:
navSearch
None
I took a look through the source of Facebook via Inspect Elements again, and "navSearch" is the "Find People, things, etc." search bar, and the unnamed form appears to have to do with the logout button. However, while Inspect Elements gives at least 2 more forms, one of which holds the status update box. I haven't been able to determine if it's because of JavaScript or not (while the status update box code block is encapsulated in , so are the navSearch and logout forms.) The most relevant thing I've been able to find is that navSearch and the logout forms are in a separate div, but I somehow feel as though that shouldn't be much of a problem for mechanize. Is there just something wrong with my code, or is it something else entirely?

Is there just something wrong with my code, or is it something else entirely?
Your whole approach is wrong:
I've been writing a program to log in to Facebook and update the status
That’s what the Graph API is for.
Scraping FB pages and trying to act as a “browser” is not the way to go. Apart from the fact, that FB policies do not allow that, you see how difficult it gets on a page that uses JavaScript/AJAX so much.
Go with the API, it’s the easy way.