Whatsapp Web Autoresponder

Whatsapp Web Autoresponder is a small program that allows you to send automatic replies to your whatsapp messages. You might be busy or away for a while and instead of letting your friends or family wait on you for a long time without any reply, you could let the program take care of that while you're away! You can specify a message to send when you receive new messages and the program will take care of sending it.

The program uses Selenium to perform the automation. It constantly checks if there is a new message and for every new message, it opens the chat and sends the automated reply.

Note: This is only for Whatsapp Web and not the mobile application.

Prerequisites

• Python 3
• A web browser, preferably Chrome or Firefox

Running the program

• Step 0, download the repository and open a console inside the folder.
• First step is to download the required dependencies. To do that, run the following command on your console:

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• After that, you're ready to run the program! Enter the following command:

  python app.py
  

  Running this command will use the default settings. To modify them, move to the next section.

Options

The following options can be added to the python app.py command to change default behaviour. Multiple options can be used at once. Here is the list of options:

• -b, --browser

  Type: String

  This option allows you to specify a web browser that you would like to run Whatsapp Web on. Currently, only 4 browsers are supported. They are:

  • Chrome

    python app.py -b chrome
    

  • Firefox

    python app.py -b firefox
    

  • Microsoft Edge

    python app.py -b edge
    

  • Internet Explorer

    python app.py -b ie
    

• -m, --message

  Type: String

  This option specifies the message that should sent by the program when a new message is received. The default message is: "Sorry, I'm busy at the moment, will reply in a while. Note that this is an auto generated message".

  python app.py -m "Hey, I'll get back to you soon"
  

• -n, --mbr

  Type: Integer

  This option allows you to tell the program, how many messages should it wait before autoresponding again. For example, the first time you receive a message, the program sends an automated reply. If the sender repeatedly sends messages, it will wait until n messages are received before autoresponding again. Default number of messages before autoresponding is 5.

  python app.py -n 10
  

• -h, --help This option just displays the list of optional arguments and their descriptions. It does not take any value.

  python app.py --help
  

Example Usage

python app.py

python app.py -m "Hey, I'll get back to you soon" -n 3 -b chrome

pyhon app.py -mbr 3 -browser chrome