WhatsApp Status Viewer

The WhatsApp Status Viewer view a specific WhatsApp contact status as soon as it is uploaded, send a WhatsApp message about the status type(Image, Video, Text, or Audio) and the time at which it was viewed OR alternatively always check and notify you if a status is uploaded. You get notified every 30minutes, 1hour, 3hours or 6 hours depending on your choice.

NOTE: WhatsApp does not allow bots or unofficial clients on their platform, so this shouldn't be considered totally safe.

Requirements

Check requirements.txt

Installation

• Download or clone this project, open command prompt from the folder and run the below command
• Open CMD from the project folder
• Create a Virtual Environment using the following command "py -m venv wsc_venv"
• Activate your virtual environment and run the below command

pip install -r requirements.txt

WhatsApp Messenger

Python-WhatsApp-Bot was used for WhatsApp message, PLEASE READ!

WhatsApp Business Cloud API Dashboard

• Go to WhatsApp Business Cloud API.
• Login and choose your created App.
• On the left side bar, click "WhatsApp".
• From the dropdown, select "Getting started".
• Here is a video demonstration

You should see a screen like this

How to use

It is recommended you create/use another instance of your Chrome browser with a specific profile for just this software. To create new profile, please check YouTube.

NOTE: Remember your profile-directory and user-data-dir after you've created the new chrome browser instance

To check for profile-directory and user-data-dir in your new instance, goto chrome://version/

• Login into WhatsApp Web and make sure it is completely synced with your phone (Loading messages).
• Download ChromeDriver that is of the same version as your Chrome browser. goto chrome://version/ to check your Chrome Version.
• Extract chromedriver from the zip into this folder assest/driver
• Afterwards, ensure all required in the config.py are provided (PHONE_ID, CONTACTS and TOKEN). See WhatsApp Business Cloud API Dashboard for your infomations.

REMEMBER THE GENERATED TOKEN EXPIRES EVERY 24HOURS.

• Then navigate to this project folder, open main.py.
• Edit driverpath variable to your driver path.
• Edit timezone variable to your location time zone.
• Edit options.add_argument(r'user-data-dir=YOUR-USER-DATA-DIR').
• Edit options.add_argument(r'--profile-directory=YOUR-PROFILE-DIR').
• Edit statusUploaderName to your desired ContactName (make sure it is exactly how it is saved on your phone(Case Sensitive)).
• Open command prompt in the same folder and run py main.py

Screenshots

Terminal | First Time Logging In

Terminal | Viewed Contact Status

WhatsApp Message | Status Notification

See other Screenshots, Click here

Errors and Fix

• Timeout When Logging in: Increase the timeout value 60 at wait = WebDriverWait(bot, 60).
• Not Receiving WhatsApp Message: Send a message to your Test Number. If a message isn't sent to your test number within 24hours, you would not recieve message.