An application that detects watsapp messeges posted in whatsapp web then sends it to a specified number/s via sms.
Wharica uses Tampermonkey and chrome, to detect incoming messages in whatsapp web. Wharica uses node.js on the backend and twilio to send sms.
- Download/clone wharica
- Install the Tampermonkey extension to your google chrome
- Add getWhatsappMsg.user.js to tampermonkey's user script
- Install node.js
- Navigate with your terminal/ command prompt to the wharica server folder
- run: npm install (will only work if node.js is properly installed]
- open app.js in a text editor and change line 21 to your phone number eg: to: '+264816547';
- after everything is installed in the server folder run: node app.js
- open chrome navigate to https://web.whatsapp.com make sure the tampermonkey extension is running
- The getWhatsappMsg.user.js extension will listen for incoming messages and send it to the node server
- The node server will send the messages to your chellphone number
This project is still in its early stages so it is still really buggy, so this is not the final product. I will try my best to fix the bugs and to add more features.
This project was made possible by the "Code For Africa" whatsapp group.