Create whatsapp birthday bot

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Author: aniket05singh

W/whatsapp birthday bot

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+# get current date in required format
+import datetime
+
+# store the birthdates of your contacts
+import json
+
+from selenium import webdriver
+
+# add a delay so that all elements of
+# the webpage are loaded before proceeding
+import time
+
+# Global variable Do not use elsewhere
+eleNM = None
+
+# This function is just to return a 
+# string of the message required
+def wish_birth(name):
+	return "Happy Birthday " + name.split(" ")[0] + "!!"
+
+# This function returns a list of values of some 
+# attribute based on conditions on two attributes from the JSON file.
+# use to return names of contacts having their birthday on current date.
+def getJsonData(file, attr_ret, attr1, attr2, attr_val1, attr_val2):
+	
+	# Load the file's data in 'data' variable
+	data = json.load(file)
+	retv =[]
+
+	# If the attributes' value conditions are satisfied, 
+	# append the name into the list to be returned.
+	for i in data:
+		if(i[attr1]== attr_val1 and i[attr2]== attr_val2):
+		retv.append(i[attr_ret])
+	return retv
+
+# Opening the JSON file (birthdays.json) in read only mode.
+data_file = open("birthdays.json", "r")
+namev =[]
+print("Script Running")
+
+# This will keep rerunning the part of 
+# the code from 'while True' to 'break'.
+# use to keep waiting for the JSON function
+# to return a non empty list.
+# In practice, this function will keep rerunning at 
+# 11:59pm a day before the birthday and break out at 12:00am.
+while True:
+	try:
+		# to get current date
+		datt = datetime.datetime.now()
+		namev = getJsonData(data_file, "name", "birth_month", "birth_date",
+										str(datt.month), str(datt.day))
+
+	except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
+		continue
+	if(namev !=[]):
+		break
+
+# ChromeOptions allows us use the userdata of chrome
+# so that you don't have to sign in manually everytime.
+chropt = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
+
+# adding userdata argument to ChromeOptions object
+chropt.add_argument("user-data-<LOCATION TO YOUR CHROME USER DATA>")
+
+# Creating a Chrome webdriver object
+driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path ="<LOCATION TO CHROME WEBDRIVER>", 
+														options = chropt)
+driver.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")
+
+# delay added to give time for all elements to load
+time.sleep(10)
+
+print(namev)
+
+# Finds the chat of your contacts (as in the namev list)
+for inp in namev:
+	try:
+		eleNM = driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[@title ="{}"]'.format(inp))
+	except Exception as ex:
+		print(ex)
+		continue
+	# Simulates a mouse click on the element
+	eleNM.click()
+
+	while(True):
+		# Finds the chat box element
+		eleTF = driver.find_element_by_class_name("_13mgZ")
+		# Writes the message(function call to wish_birth())
+		eleTF.send_keys(wish_birth(inp))
+		# Finds the Send button
+		eleSND = driver.find_element_by_class_name("_3M-N-")
+		# Simulates a click on it
+		eleSND.click()
+		break