Reading the latest Whatsapp messages using python and pyautogui

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Introduction

Hi everyone! I had built this some time ago this code and now I want to share it with everyone. My idea was to open WhatsApp, select the phone number, and read the messages, but then I needed to do this:

• Open WhatsApp using WhatsApp's web protocol

• Wait 10 seconds

• Focus on WhatsApp's window

• Drag the cursor to select the latest messages (unfortunatly, can't use ctrl+a to select everything)

• Copy everything

• Get the clipboards content

In the full code, the coordinates below may not be correct in your case, so remember to update them:

import pyautogui  
import time  
time.sleep(5)  
print(pyautogui.position())

But first, you need to install the pyautogui (for automating) and the webbrowser (to open whatsapp) libraries:

$ pip3 install webbrowser  
$ pip3 install pyautogui

The code

Finally, heres the full code:

import webbrowser
import pyautogui
import time
import pyperclip
phone = pyautogui.prompt('Telephone number')
webbrowser.open("whatsapp://send?phone=" + phone)
time.sleep(10)
pyautogui.click(1803, 916)
time.sleep(0.2)
pyautogui.dragTo(587, 127, 0.2, button='left')
pyautogui.hotkey('ctrl', 'c')
ret = pyperclip.paste()
pyautogui.alert(ret, "results")
print("\n\n ******************* \n\n" + ret + "\n\n")
pyautogui.click(1900, 4)

Thank you for reading!