WhatsApp Spambot with pyautogui using Python

By Mriganka Paul

This Project is used to send custom messages to targeted users via WhatsApp a predefined number of times. The default message is "Hi!"

The Python module pyautogui helps users to automate the keypresses and mouse clicks programmatically.

This article is for education purposes only and may be used by a developer to test the Python integration with the web browser. Spamming is not likely to be done and may cause trouble if done to unknown people.

So, What is Spamming?

It refers to sending unsolicited messages to a large number of systems over the internet. 

Is there any real-life application for the same?

Yes, firstly we can send multiple reminders to a particular person.

Secondly, we can fill the inbox of our best friend at a midnight and he/she might be surprised to see a stream of messages the next morning. Great Prank huh?

 

Well, jokes aside, spambots are lightweight code and are really useful to test the accessibility of the browser using python code directly.

 

What is the Approach to running it?

Here you go:

Install python on your computer and make sure that the version is the latest, for more features.

We will be using Jupyter Notebook to run this Spambot.

Open cmd and type-> jupyter notebook:

jupyter notebook
[I 19:56:53.814 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: C:\Users\admin
[I 19:56:53.814 NotebookApp] Jupyter Notebook 6.4.8 is running at:
[I 19:56:53.816 NotebookApp] http://localhost:8888/?token=4cf10b67c5bc4d04ec904c529701d49f6bd72d92e6eb5abd
[I 19:56:53.816 NotebookApp]  or http://127.0.0.1:8888/?token=4cf10b67c5bc4d04ec904c529701d49f6bd72d92e6eb5abd
[I 19:56:53.816 NotebookApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all kernels (twice to skip confirmation).
[C 19:56:54.510 NotebookApp]

    To access the notebook, open this file in a browser:
        file:///C:/Users/admin/AppData/Roaming/jupyter/runtime/nbserver-8520-open.html
    Or copy and paste one of these URLs:
        http://localhost:8888/?token=4cf10b67c5bc4d04ec904c529701d49f6bd72d92e6eb5abd
     or http://127.0.0.1:8888/?token=4cf10b67c5bc4d04ec904c529701d49f6bd72d92e6eb5abd

This starts running jupyter on your browser.

From the top right select new and from the dropdown select Python3 (ipykernel)

Start running the code.

pip install pyautogui

Press Shift+Enter. This installs the pyautogui on your computer.

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Then we have to install web-browser module.

pip install webbrowser

We install the web-browser module and in most cases, it is preinstalled.

Then we write the main code.

import pyautogui
import webbrowser as wb
import time
wb.open("web.whatsapp.com")
time.sleep(60)
for i in range(500):
    pyautogui.press('H')
    pyautogui.press('i')
    pyautogui.press('!')
    pyautogui.press('enter')

This code upon running will automatically open Microsoft edge on your computer, with WhatsApp web.

You need to log in to your WhatsApp web, so make sure that you are putting time.sleep in line 5 to a value >= 60 seconds.

 

Result:

This Block of code will open your WhatsApp and then send 500 messages (Hi!) to a person whom you select. The default message will be Hi!.

How can we alter this code?

You can do the following modifications:

1. Change the sleep time to anything above 60. The more seconds you add, the longer it will take to generate automated messages.

2. You can change the message to anything you like but make sure to enter only a single character. 

Eg- If you want to print Hello, the following lines will be added.

pyautogui.press('H')

pyautogui.press('e')

pyautogui.press('l')

pyautogui.press('l')

pyautogui.press('o')

 

Make sure to open the chat of the targeted person when you open WhatsApp so that it can start sending messages after sleep time.

Hope it helps.