sbshah97 / What-omation

Parsing WhatsApp Web on the Linux Terminal and using the terminal with advanced functionality like creating local backups of chats and implementing a chat bot for WhatsApp

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Whatsapp-Web

About

  • This is a tool to parse Whatsapp messenger on a web browser. This tool uses the Selenium module in Python 2.7 and 3.5 for parsing through Whatsapp messages.

Usage

This is primarily built as a parsing tool for students.

Contributing

  • The repository is open to contribution from all interested developers. Kindly send us Pull Requests with explanation as to what changes you have done.
  • Also, you can write to us by opening an Issue and also solve a current issue if possible.
  • A detailed explanantion of how we came to building this software is maintained at the Wiki page.
  • This repository was created and is currently maintained by @salman-bhai.

License

Installation

  • Fork this project to your GitHub account.
  • After forking, enter the following commands in your terminal.
$ git clone https://github.com/salman-bhai/Whatsapp-Web
  • After that get inside the repository and execute the following instructions
cd WhatsApp-Web
pip install virtualenv
virtualenv wa-web
source wa-web/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Make sure to install Google Chrome or Chromium browser on your OS or you can also use Mozilla Browser to run this application.

  • Open the drivers directory and read the README file there and install the required drivers according to you convenience.

  • If you're using Chrome Driver run the following instruction:

python main.py --chrome
  • If you're using Gecko Driver run the following instruction:
python main.py --mozilla

About

Parsing WhatsApp Web on the Linux Terminal and using the terminal with advanced functionality like creating local backups of chats and implementing a chat bot for WhatsApp

License:MIT License


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