SendWhatsppTextByJavaScript VS matterbridge

def __init__(self, group_name=GN): self.group_name = group_name logging.info("Starting WhatsAppGroupManager") options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() options.add_argument("user-data-dir=" + PATH_TO_CHROME_DRIVER_USER_PROFILE) self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options) # self.driver.maximize_window() self.driver.get('https://web.whatsapp.com/') logging.info("Opened WhatsApp Web") def manager_kill(self): self.driver.close() self.driver.quit() def open_group_chat(self): try: # Wait for the chat input field to be visible chat_input = WebDriverWait(self.driver,45).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located( ( By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[3]/div/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[1]/p') ) ) time.sleep(sleep_time) chat_input.click() Logger.info("Clicked on the chat input field on the left side of WhatsApp") time.sleep(sleep_time) # Find the input field again after clicking on it chat_input = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 45).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located( ( By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[3]/div/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[1]/p') ) ) chat_input.send_keys(self.group_name) Logger.info("Inserted the group name into the search field") time.sleep(sleep_time) chat_input.send_keys(Keys.ENTER) Logger.info("Pressed ENTER") time.sleep(sleep_time) Logger.info("Opened the group chat") except Exception as e: Logger.error(f"Error: {e}") self.manager_kill() return None def open_group_info(self): try: # open group chat self.open_group_chat() time.sleep(sleep_time) chat_input = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 45).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located( ( By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[4]/div/header/div[3]/div/div[3]/div/div/span') ) ) chat_input.click() Logger.info("Clicked on the group info button") time.sleep(sleep_time) # Find the input field again after clicking on it chat_input = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 45).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located( ( By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div/span[5]/div/ul/div/div/li[1]/div') ) ) chat_input.click() Logger.info("In group info menu") time.sleep(sleep_time) except Exception as e: logging.error(f"Error in open_group_info: {e}") self.manager_kill() return None def open_add_telephone_numbers(self): self.open_group_info() time.sleep(sleep_time) try: chat_input = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 45).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located( ( By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[5]/span/div/span/div/div/div/section/div[7]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div') ) ) chat_input.click() Logger.info("Clicked on the add telephone numbers button") time.sleep(sleep_time) except Exception as e: logging.error(f"Error in open_add_telephone_numbers: {e}") self.manager_kill() return None def add_telephone_numbers(self, phone_numbers): if isinstance(phone_numbers, str): phone_numbers = [phone_numbers] # convert string to list self.open_add_telephone_numbers() time.sleep(sleep_time) try: for phone_number in phone_numbers: try: chat_input = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 45).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located( ( By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div/span[2]/div/span/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[1]/p') ) ) chat_input.click() Logger.info("Clicked on the search field") time.sleep(sleep_time) # Clear the text field chat_input.send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 'a') chat_input.send_keys(Keys.DELETE) chat_input.send_keys(phone_number) Logger.info("Inserted the phone number into the search field") time.sleep(sleep_time) # Check if the phone number exists # Not Working try: WebDriverWait(self.driver, 2).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located( ( By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div/span[2]/div/span/div/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div[2]') ) ) Logger.info("Phone Number exist") time.sleep(sleep_time) # Send the ENTER key chat_input.send_keys(Keys.ENTER) Logger.info("Pressed ENTER to add the person into the group") time.sleep(sleep_time) continue except: Logger.info(f"Phone number does not exists: {phone_number}") time.sleep(sleep_time) pass except Exception as e: logging.error(f"Error in open_add_telephone_numbers: {e}") self.manager_kill() return None # Send the ENTER key chat_input.send_keys(Keys.ENTER) Logger.info("Pressed ENTER to add the person into the group") time.sleep(sleep_time) chat_input = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 45).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located( ( By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div/span[2]/div/span/div/div/div/div/div/div/span[2]/div/div/div/span') ) ) chat_input.click() Logger.info("Clicked on the add telephone numbers button") time.sleep(sleep_time) # Confirm the adding of the telephone numbers chat_input = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 45).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable( ( By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div/span[2]/div/span/div/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/button[2]/div/div') ) ) time.sleep(5) Logger.info("Should click on the confirmation the add telephone numbers button") chat_input.click() Logger.info("Clicked on Confirmation the add telephone numbers button") time.sleep(4) except Exception as e: logging.error(f"Error in add_telephone_numbers: {e}") self.manager_kill() return None

Hi everyone. The other day a client of mine's employees started having issues with the "internet not working". After some detective work with traceroute and interviewing them about what sites they were having issues with, I determined that the actual issue was with the web.whatsapp.com service having downtime. I'm mentioning all this because I'm now thinking of making them a small video/article on our intranet about how to troubleshoot problems like this by themselves. Part of that strategy is deploying WinMTR on their machines so they can run it. I still don't know how I'll verify if it's installed, but maybe checking if it's in the target folder (intend to send it to System32 by creating an Intune package with IntuneWinAppUtil.exe) is a good start. There is a Tracert app on the Appstore but it's paid and I have no idea how one can pay for it in bulk without having each employee put in a credit card. Anyways just wanted to ask what you all are doing for this type of scenarios. Cheers. PS: anyone hiring for Intune/sysadmin type jobs or know where one can find remote jobs for non-US citizens?

I believe web.whatsapp.com is being blocked by local telecom companies in order to protect their duopoly and keep Oman in tech--stone-age. If fewer people know how else the rest of the world uses the internet, then they don't have to make an effort to improve their offerings. Omantel is definitely blocking this web.whatsapp.com.

What's wrong with https://web.whatsapp.com/ ?

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Whatsapp (Free) - chat. although some people prefer iMessage and other ones.

use browser for one account https://web.whatsapp.com/ and app for the other

I've received a video via WhatsApp from an untrusted source. I used my personal PC to open the video (via "WhatsApp Web" website). I should mention that I didn't download the video to my PC, I just opened the video online, watched it then closed the web browser.

I have recently moved from iPhone to Pixel 8, and when I try to link a device, for example my browser (web.whatsapp.com) or the windows app, the Whatsapp App on the phone crashes and restarts, and the linking process does not succeed.

on my chrome browser i have linked device https://web.whatsapp.com/ and when i select search button (magnifying glass) i type a word and i can see search is looking for messages... but the search never completes and no messages are found.

All of them. :)

https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge

An involved alternative is to access whatsapp through a matrix bridge. It requires either paying for hosting or figuring out how to host a matrix server and the whatsapp bridge [1]; I do the latter and can attest it's not very hard if you have a technical background (and you're on hn, so you probably do), but YMMV. There's a lot of matrix clients, all of which open source; and the whatsapp bridge works really well nowadays, enough that I've been using it almost exclusively for my texting (no whatsapp calls tho).

In fact, I recently bought a non-smartphone running KaiOS, and use whatsapp through a matrix client, chooj - which, although in early alpha, works well for my use case of accessing whatsapp while outside the home without having to carry an addictive smartphone with me. KaiOS does have a native whatsapp app, but it does not support whatsapp web at all, and that is an absolute necessity for me, especially when typing requires (bad) T9.

My point is, matrix bridges afford A LOT of freedom with how to access whatsapp (and other closed-source communication apps), if you're willing to deal with some friction. And now they're stable and mature enough that they work pretty darn well - no doubt thanks in part to support from beeper [2], which funds development for several major bridges. Within the android ecosystem, beeper is probably the easiest way to gateway all your communications through matrix, though I have no experience with it. Sounds like paid matrix+bridge hosting, plus a generally much nicer and frictionless experience.

[1]: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge

[2]: https://www.beeper.com/

We use matterbridge to bridge IRC to matrix at https://tetaneutral.net

https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge

It's a chat bridge for different platforms. https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge

I personally use matterbridge to bridge between specific IRC channels and specific discord server channels, and run it on a FreeBSD server. Packages are available for it on the BSDs and major Linux distributions. Follow the instructions for configuration and enable its service as appropriate on the OS.

https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge perhaps?

Hi, I'm looking for an easy to use automation tool for my company. There are tons of projects out there and I find it hard to pick one among them. I found : - hugging - n8n - beehive - flogo - metterbridge - node-red

As for the use case op hopes for -- the matterbridge project might be relevant. Ideally, you could migrate the history to a Mattermost server and set up the bridge. The Mattermost server will log all future communications automatically. The benefit of this over a pure archive (HTML or PDF type) is that the archive itself is a full-featured workspace ready to be used standalone at any time, should any issues arise from Slack.

Oh, interesting! It seems like an alternative to MatterBridge but for 1 to 1 bridging.