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When can I send messages from a PC running Python?

• vachina 10mo ago
  You can just that a working script is run by crooks (and is not public)
• charcircuit 10mo ago
  WhatsApp has an official API you can use already. https://pypi.org/project/whatsapp-python/ https://pypi.org/project/whatsapp-python/
  • GranPC 10mo ago
    That is not official, unmaintained since November 2024, and only applicable for the business API. It wouldn't allow someone to create a WhatsApp client for a non-Android/iOS platform.
    • charcircuit 10mo ago
      >It wouldn't allow someone to create a WhatsApp client for a non-Android/iOS platform. This is moving the goal posts.
      • amelius 10mo ago
        The goal post was moved already because I said "when can I send messages" and not "when can my business send messages". Anyway, thanks for the link.
  • amelius 10mo ago
    Looks like it is an API for the WhatsApp Business Platform. (So not free, not for consumers) https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/overview https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messa...
• dmitrygr 10mo ago
  Hopefully - never ever ever ever ever. I do not want spam. This is why iMessage is much better than SMS - there is an implicit cost to send. This is why there is 100x (my experience) iMessage spam than SMS spam. Easy to send messages -> spam
  • jeroenhd 10mo ago
    > better than SMS - there is an implicit cost to send Funnily enough, people being charged per SMS but being allowed to send as much messages as they need on apps like WhatsApp is exactly why SMS/MMS is barely used on a large scale outside of North America. I rarely receive any spam on my phone. WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal do have the occasional obvious bot, but all apps make it trivial to block and get rid of any of them.
  • circuit10 10mo ago
    It’s already possible to make WhatsApp bots, if the API was official they could moderate it better if anything so I don’t see how it would help with spam
  • direwolf20 10mo ago
    All phone and internet services in the EU are connected to your personal identity document, similar to China. If you send spam, the police come to your house.
    • dmitrygr 10mo ago
      And this why there is no phone spam… oh wait…
• velocity3230 10mo ago
  In a roundabout way, you can. Today, I could write a Python script to connect to my Matrix Synapse server and send a message to rooms bridged to WhatsApp via the `mautrix-whatsapp` bridge.
  • greentea23 10mo ago
    Despite the opt in limitation, I wonder if this interop capability will allow a bridge that doesn't require you to install whatsapp apk on a real device (unfortunately signal has the same problem). I fortunately kept an old android whose sole purpose is to keep these 2 apps installed. Not ideal, but works well. Even better if we could ditch the phone number requirement. Many have said to me things like "I use whatsapp not SMS because I am not American", but of course everyone on WhatsApp uses SMS. To stay logged into WhatsApp you necessessarily must have an SMS enabled non-VOIP phone number that you are regularly paying a telecom provider for to receive auth codes.