Broadcast Idea

[xandao-dev]

Load a file with phone numbers and send a message to all of them! The difference between this and the Whatsapp broadcast in smartphone is that we can send message even if we don't have that contact!

[zulkernine]

I would like to work on this. I just got a reference that how to send message through api.whatsapp.com, here's a link of it : https://www.androidpit.com/send-whatsapp-message-without-adding-contact-to-address-book . Can i implement it here? Or please suggest some better ways.

[xandao-dev]

@zulkernine I'm refactoring the project and I already included this feature to send message to unknown number. I will release it soon. So wait for my release to start working on this issue.

[zulkernine]

Ok. I'm waiting ☺️

[xandao-dev]

@zulkernine ready

[zulkernine]

What is the type of the file ? In which format will it contains those numbers??

[xandao-dev]

a simple txt, 1 number per line:

9194848948 4848946548 4684848648

[zulkernine]

Alright

[zulkernine]

Should I use that api to send message to unsaved number? In that case , whatsapp web will be opened in the new tab again, thus it would take a very long time. So what should I do??

[xandao-dev]

use this method: search_and_select_target. It will detect the number and load the page, without opening a new one

[xandao-dev]

so you can put it in a for loop:

for number in numbers:
    search_and_select_target(page, number)
    send message

[zulkernine]

I got the idea :) I'm starting to implement it . I'll make the commit soon.

[zulkernine]

Searching the target(through number) more than once gives this pop up. How to disable this pop up ?

If this check box is checked ( which comes during second target search) , then it doesn't any more.

[zulkernine]

My code is ready for commit except this issue(Mentioned upper).

[zulkernine]

a simple txt, 1 number per line:

9194848948 4848946548 4684848648

Should I assume all the numbers are correct and has a whatsapp account? Number will contain country code or not?

I implemented it in such a way that if country code is provided then alright otherwise indian country code is used.

[xandao-dev]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46669788/how-to-handle-popups-in-puppeteer

[xandao-dev]

skip the number if error and log a message.

[zulkernine]

skip the number if error and log a message.

Following error is skipped in the try_load_contact_by_number() in target search. Consequently, Though the number is invalid, this function is returning true leading to exit call in get_focused_target_title(). :(

[xandao-dev]

Think that all numbers are valid, I will fix this in the weekend.

[zulkernine]

Ok

[zulkernine]

A PR is created regarding this issue . Please review.

[zulkernine]

What happened? What about that PR?