We the people of the world have a message to the Russian nation. A nation that is to pay a huge price because of the shameful decision of the dictator Putin to attack an independent Ukraine by armed forces. The joint action of all the states of the free world, as a response to Russia’s aggression, will lead to the collapse of the entire country.

However, nearly 150 million Russians do not know the truth about the causes or course of the war in Ukraine. It is fed with the lies of the Kremlin propaganda. There is no free media in Russia and the internet is censored.

It is possible for each of us to convey a direct message to the inhabitants of this enslaved country.

This is a script that makes use of squad303's api for retrieving randomly selected Russian phone numbers.

It retrieves the phone numbers from squad303's api and then sends messages using Selenium and WhatsApp Web. It also supports sending images. t to open Whatsapp Web in the browser, automatically populate the recipient and message and then send the message

Let them know the truth. Let them know the power of the free world!

Python Version: 3.8

Not mandatory, but best to use a Python Virtual Environment

You need tkinter

sudo apt-get install python3-tk python3-dev

You need Selenium Chromedriver. Only up to step 3 (SeleniumServer not required)

• Create a custom Chrome profile

• Log into Whatsapp Web in your chrome profile: Whatsapp Web

NOTE: I had a lot of problems getting selenium to use a chrome profile. In order to make it happen I had to copy my user dir from /home/<usr name>/.config/google-chrome to the project directory, then set the user_data_dir to the directory in the project, and the profile_directory to the name of the profile that Chrome created for me. You will find this if you open chrome with your new profile, navigate to chrome://version and look for the "Profile Path" value. Set profile_directory to whatever is after the last forward slash. In my case it was /home/<usr name>/.config/google-chrome/Profile 3 so I did as follows:

• copy /home/<usr name>/.config/google-chrome to a google-chrome in my project root
• set user_data_path in config.json to /google-chrome`
• set profile_directory in config.json to Profile 3

A few times I got an error messaging saying the user_data_dir was already in use. I resolved this by killing all chrome and chrome driver related processes and trying again.

pip install -r requirements.txt

python main.py

Untested - contributions welcomed

I think there may be some issues with the img sending because of different types of slashes between Windows and Linux but I haven't tested

If you set img_enabled to true in config.json, the script will pick an image at random from the /img folder and send it with your message. You can add as many images as you want to /img with any filenames - it will list the dir and then choose one at random.

• Your Whatsapp account may be banned after some hours of use, so best to use a virtual phone number/e sim or only work with small batches of varying message content

config.json allows you to configure the paramters of the script

• user_data_path and profile_directory point Selenium to your Chrome Profile (with Whatsapp already logged in) see Setting Up Chrome profile section for more info
• url is the url from which to retrieve the phone numbers
• messages is a list of message content texts that are chosen at random for each message
• img_enabled is to enable/disable sending images, see Images section for more info
• open_wait is how long to wait before sending message after opening Whatsapp Web (random +- 2s)
• click_wait how long to wait between clicks when sending Whatsapp message