Python Automated Bulk WhatsApp Messages

It is a python script that sends WhatsApp message automatically from WhatsApp web application. It can be configured to send advertising messages to customers. It read data from a Google sheet and send a configured message to people.

Prerequisites

In order to run the python script, your system must have the following programs/packages installed and the contact number either should be saved in your phone or could be a new number.

• Python >= 3.8: Download it from https://www.python.org/downloads
• Selenium Web Driver: Either you can use repo driver else you can download it https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
• Google Chrome : Download it from https://www.google.com/chrome
• Pandas : Run in command prompt pip install pandas
• Xlrd : Run in command prompt pip install xlrd
• Openpyxl : Run in command prompt pip install openpyxl
• Selenium: Run in command prompt pip install selenium

Approach

• User scans web QR code to log in into the WhatsApp web application for the new session.
• The script reads a customized message from the Google sheet.
• The script reads rows one by one and searches that contact number in the web search box if the contact number found on WhatsApp then it will send a configured message otherwise it creates url for new number. Then it reads next row.
• Loop execute until and unless all rows complete.

Process

• Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/arkisoul/whatsapp-bulk-message-automation

• Change directory

cd whatsapp-bulk-message-automation

• Use any virtualenv for python venv, pipenv, conda and install application dependencies

pip install -e requirements.txt

• Use below command to send bulk message
  • Without attachment

    python app/app.py SHEET_ID SHEET_NAME SHEET_GID
    

  • With attachment

    python app/app.py --image-path='absolute/path/to/the/image' SHEET_ID SHEET_NAME SHEET_GID
    

Google Sheet Reference

Example Google sheet for your reference https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fB1UHWOHXGTWQJ208UEiermUZ6MfOTZpqI_Tea8Vwqw/edit#gid=1484715859

• Google Sheet ID = 1fB1UHWOHXGTWQJ208UEiermUZ6MfOTZpqI_Tea8Vwqw
• Google Sheet Name = Customers
• Google Sheet Gid = 1484715859

Note: The script may not work in case if the HTML of web WhatsApp is changed.

Inspiration

This script is inspired from @inforkgodara repo and updated to read a Google sheet and send to any whatsapp number.