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Posted by Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points

Making an automated message resender

Hey everyone, I am making a whatsapp message re-sender. So I am gonna use the whatsapp web app and I'm planning to do it like so:

  • message sent by user 1 and received by desktop

  • message is copied

  • message is pasted into broadcast text box to send to predefined list of people

  • message is sent via broadcast

I just want any input from the community mainly on what language you think would be the best to do this with?

Thanks everyone!

1 Answer

Henrik Hansen
Henrik Hansen
23,176 Points
Henrik Hansen
Henrik Hansen
23,176 Points

I think the only way is to access the messages on the device that receives the message, since WhatsApp doesn't have an API (or so it seems). Thus, you will need to learn some iOS programming and Android programming. And i suppose you can get the text from the WhatsApp web.

For Android

For iOS

Windows Phone

Then maybe you can use PHP in a backend to handle the resending somehow. But I think sending it within WhatsApp will be impossible. But then again, this is based on google not being able to find an API for WhatsApp.

Josh Keenan
Josh Keenan
20,315 Points

Thanks Henrik, that helped!