Whatsapp Web Scraper

• Runtime: Python 3.5

How to install:

To run selenium you need gecko driver, in case you haven't set it up till now: you can download it from here. And place it in the path.

Create virtualenv using virtualenvwrapper

mkvirtualenv whatsapp_scraper --python=python3
workon whatsapp_scraper 
pip install selenium

Run:

python whatsapp_web.py
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Script takes around 10mins to run(for open 128 open chats), as WhatsApp loads chat dynamically. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns regarding the script.