How to annoy your friends on WhatsApp?

There are various ways to annoy your friends but being a programmer(); I should do it with my weapon known as CODE. πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’»
Let's dive into it. 😁
We will be using python as a programming language and selenium to automate messaging.
Step 1: Download Chromedriver
Use this link to download ChromeDriver and extract the zip file.

Note: Download according to the version of Chrome installed on your system.
Step 2: Install Selenium Package
We need to install the selenium python package.

Open the terminal and run the command pip install selenium.
Learn more about Selenium here
Step 3: Programming
Time to code (); πŸ˜‰
  • Create a python file filename.py in any code editor. (I am using PyCharm)
  • Paste the following code (Read the comments to understand the code)
  • How to get XPath of HTML element?
  • from selenium import webdriver
    from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
    from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
    from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
    from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
    
    # About Selenium - https://www.selenium.dev/
    
    # Getting Chrome Driver
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(r"D:\Softwares\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe") #put path of chromedriver.exe
    driver.get('https://web.whatsapp.com/')
    
    # Number of messages you want to spam
    MESSAGE_COUNT = 10
    
    # Sends Message
    def sendMessage(msg):
        # Entering message in chat box
        WebDriverWait(driver, 100).until(
            EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="main"]/footer/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]'))).send_keys(msg)
    
        # Clicking SEND button
        WebDriverWait(driver, 100).until(
            EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="main"]/footer/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]'))).send_keys(
            Keys.RETURN)
    
    flag = True
    
    while flag:
        name = input("Enter Contact Name (Type \'exit\' to end the program) :") #type exit to end program
    
        if name == "exit":
            flag = False
        else:
            # How to get XPath of HTML element? -
            # Learn at https://ajaygalagali.hashnode.dev/how-to-get-xpath-of-html-element
    
            # To know more about XPATH visit - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath
    
            # Clicking on Search
            WebDriverWait(driver, 100).until(
                EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="side"]/div[1]/div/label/div/div[2]'))).click()
    
            # Entering contact name
            WebDriverWait(driver, 100).until(
                EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="side"]/div[1]/div/label/div/div[2]'))).send_keys(name)
    
            # Opening chat of contact
            WebDriverWait(driver, 100).until(
                EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, '//*[@id="side"]/div[1]/div/label/div/div[2]'))).send_keys(
                Keys.RETURN)
    
            # Spamming messages
            for i in range(MESSAGE_COUNT):
                sendMessage(i)
    
            sendMessage("These messages are sent by Python Program!")
            sendMessage("Learn here: https://ajaygalagali.hashnode.dev/")
    See to it that package is imported successfully.
    Step 4: Sending messages
  • Run the program
  • WhatsApp Web will be opened in the new Chrome Browser window.
  • Scan the QR code by your smartphone WhatsApp app to log into your account.
  • Enter the contact name you want to send messages to
  • Selenium will search the contact, types the messages, and sends them automatically.
  • Here, I sent 11 messages for demo purposes. You can send 1000s of messages too.

  • You can change the variable MESSAGE_COUNT in the program to any number, that number of messages will be spammed to your friend.

  • πŸ‘¨β€βš–οΈ Conclusion
    Are they gonna get annoyed by just 11 messages? No way!

    Listen to my story! I programmed to send 10k messages to my close friend's group. Around 50 messages were sent into the group and admin kicked me out of the group πŸ˜‚. Admin with a brain! πŸ‘.
    Well, title should be How to get kicked out of WhatsApp group without being mean? 😁
    lol xD
    🀝 Thank You

    Keep annoying friends πŸ˜‰

    ⚠ Check out original blog here

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