Whatsapp Bulk Message Bot

Instructions

Setting up the environment.

• Make sure you have node installed on your system. To check if you have it installed, open your terminal and type in node. If no error shows up, you're good. Else, Download Node
• Clone this git repository into your system using the clone command: git clone <repository url>
• Open the cloned project folder in your terminal.
• Run npm install to install the required packages and dependencies required to run the app. It may take some time. Be patient :)

Setting up the code.

• Edit the contact.csv file to add in the numbers and name of the recepients of your message. (Do not change the titles of the csv file)
• If you want to send an image along with your messages, copy the image file into the project folder. Then open the file app.js in your favourite text editor (VS Code for noobs, Vim for Pros) and change the line const media = MessageMedia.fromFilePath("<your image file name.file_extension");. Also make sure that the line await client.sendMessage(num, media); is not commented out. If you don't want to send an image, comment the above mentioned line.
• Now change the message that you want to send by changing the variable msg1 in app.js. Remember that the message should be in one line, and any line breaks should be mentioned explicitly using the new line escape sequence \n. Wherever in the message you need to print out the contact's name that you provided in the csv, insert [name].
• If you want to send two text messages at once, uncomment the line await client.sendMessage(num, msg2); and change the vairable msg2 into the message that you want to send just like you did for msg1.
• To start sending the bulk messages, you have to initiate the function. For that, you have to send a message: !start to the whatsapp number mentioned in the line: if (msg.to === "91<number_here>@c.us"). More on this later.

Running the app.

• Now run the app.js file by typing node ./app.js in your terminal in the project directory.
• A Chromium window will pop up, opening web.whatsapp.com. Scan the qr code, login to whatsapp.
• Now send !start to the number that you added into the code to initiate the send function.
• Sit back and enjoy watching people get spammed :)

Failed messages

• If there was an error sending messages to any of the contacts in the csv, the numbers can be found in the file failed.csv in the project directory.