Share WhatsApp Web without Scanning QR code using Python

Last Updated : 20 Sep, 2022

Prerequisite: Selenium, Browser Automation Using Selenium

In this article, we are going to see how to share your Web-WhatsApp with anyone over the Internet without Scanning a QR code.

Web-Whatsapp store sessions

Web Whatsapp stores sessions in IndexedDB with the name wawc and syncs those key-value pairs to local storage. IndexedDB stores the data inside the user's browser and allows to create web application that can query from this indexedDB with or without a network connection.

How to get a session:

We can figure it out by trying the following. We will take help of chrome dev tool.

Steps:

Clear cookies and refresh the page: It will remain login.
Clear localStorage and refresh the page: It will restore the local Storage and remain logged in.
Clear IndexedDB and refresh the page: It will restore the IndexedDB and remain logged in.
Now clear both localStorage and IndexedDB: It will log out.

Steps demonstration:

Extract sessions from IndexedDB:

We can extract sessions from IndexedDB by using the following javascript.

JavaScript

function getResultFromRequest(request) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        request.onsuccess = function (event) {
            resolve(request.result);
        };
    });
}
 
async function getDB() {
    var request = window.indexedDB.open("wawc");
    return await getResultFromRequest(request);
}
 
async function readAllKeyValuePairs() {
    var db = await getDB();
    var objectStore = db.transaction("user").objectStore("user");
    var request = objectStore.getAll();
       return await getResultFromRequest(request);
}
 
session = await readAllKeyValuePairs();
console.log(session);

We can try to execute the above code in the browser's console or tab where we had opened Web-Whatsapp and we will see the output as follows containing session key-value pairs.

Now we get those key-value pairs as text by running the following line of code.

JavaScript

JSON.stringify(session);

Now let's copy that text to a file to save a session and clear both localStorage and IndexedDB to log out. Now we can run the following code to inject a session by assigning the value of the session string we just copied to a file to variable SESSION_STRING. Then refresh the page and we will log in again without scanning the QR code.

JavaScript

function getResultFromRequest(request) {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        request.onsuccess = function(event) {
            resolve(request.result);
        };
    })
}
 
async function getDB() {
    var request = window.indexedDB.open("wawc");
    return await getResultFromRequest(request);
}
 
async function injectSession(SESSION_STRING) {
    var session = JSON.parse(SESSION_STRING);
    var db = await getDB();
    var objectStore = db.transaction("user", "readwrite").objectStore("user");
    for(var keyValue of session) {
        var request = objectStore.put(keyValue);
        await getResultFromRequest(request);
    }
}
 
var SESSION_STRING = "";
await injectSession(SESSION_STRING);

Automating the process of generating a session file and injecting a session:

We can automate the process of generating a session file that contains our session key-value pairs and also reading session key-value pairs from that generated session file to inject a session into the browser to open web-WhatsApp without scanning QR code

We can automate as follows:

Take the session file path as a command-line argument.

Generating session file:

Open Chrome browser.
Open Web Whatsapp.
Ask the user to scan the QR code.
Wait for the QR code to be scanned.
Execute javascript in the browser and extract the session.
Save the file with a session text file with the custom file extension ".wa".
Close the browser.

Opening session file:

Verify that the session file exists.
Read the given file into the "session" variable.
Open Chrome browser.
Open Web Whatsapp.
Wait for Web Whatsapp to be loaded properly.
Execute javascript in browser to inject session by using variable "session".
Refresh the page.
Ask for the user to press enter key to close the browser.

Below is the implementation:

Note: Please download chormedrive before running the code.

By using selenium's WebDriverWait, we can wait for some elements to be present on the browser as following:

Python3

def _wait_for_presence_of_an_element(browser, selector):
    element = None
    
    try:
        element = WebDriverWait(browser, DEFAULT_WAIT).until(
            EC.presence_of_element_located(selector)
        )
    except:
        pass
    finally:
        return element

Generating session file:

Python3

def sessionGenerator(sessionFilePath):

    # 1.1 Open Chrome browser
    browser = webdriver.Chrome()

    # 1.2 Open Web Whatsapp
    browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")

    # 1.3 Ask user to scan QR code
    print("Waiting for QR code scan...")

    # 1.4 Wait for QR code to be scanned
    _wait_for_presence_of_an_element(
      browser, MAIN_SEARCH_BAR__SEARCH_ICON)

    # 1.5 Execute javascript in browser and 
    # extract the session text
    session = browser.execute_script(EXTRACT_SESSION)

    # 1.6 Save file with session text file with
    # custom file extension ".wa"
    with open(sessionFilePath, "w", encoding="utf-8") as sessionFile:
        sessionFile.write(str(session))

    print("Your session file is saved to: " + sessionFilePath)

    # 1.7 Close the browser
    browser.close()

Use the above methods for Generating session file:

Python3

from session import *
import sys

# Take session file path as command line
# argument and passed to following method
sessionFilePath = sys.argv[1]

sessionGenerator(sessionFilePath)

Opening session file:

Python3

def sessionOpener(sessionFilePath):

    # 2.1 Verify that session file is exist
    if sessionFilePath == "":
        raise IOError('"' + sessionFilePath + '" is not exist.')

    # 2.2 Read the given file into "session" variable
    with open(sessionFilePath, "r", encoding="utf-8") as sessionFile:
        session = sessionFile.read()

    # 2.3 Open Chrome browser
    browser = webdriver.Chrome()

    # 2.4 Open Web Whatsapp
    browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")

    # 2.5 Wait for Web Whatsapp to be loaded properly
    _wait_for_presence_of_an_element(browser, QR_CODE)

    # 2.6 Execute javascript in browser to inject
    # session by using variable "session"
    print("Injecting session...")
    browser.execute_script(INJECT_SESSION, session)

    # 2.7 Refresh the page
    browser.refresh()

    # 2.8 Ask for user to enter any key to close browser
    input("Press enter to close browser.")

Use the above methods for Opening session file:

Python3

from session import *
import sys

# Take session file path as command line 
# argument and passed to following method
sessionFilePath = sys.argv[1]

sessionOpener(sessionFilePath)

We can generate a session file by using the following command:

For Generating session file:

python session_generator.py session.wa

After generating the session file then share it with someone and put that session file in the same folder where session_opener.py is located and run the following command to open the Web Whatsapp without scanning the QR code

For Opening session file: