Watch Later

A WhatsApp Bot that scrapes the YouTube links sent by a contact and adds them to your watch later playlist.

🌠 Developed Using Puppeteer

Checkout the legailty of web scraping here before diving into the code

Usage

• Clone this repo, cd watch-later
• Go to Google Developers Console
• Create a new project, enable the YouTube API and create an OAuth 2.0 Client ID
• Download the client_secret.json file and add it to your current directory
• Login to WhatsApp web on chrome or chromium browser
• Make a copy of the User Data Directory of the browser on your current directory or provide a relative path at L116
• Install all the required dependencies by running

npm install

• Serve the bot and authorize the app

npm start

🚀 And there you have it.. The bot is up and scraping

🤔 Why you might need this !

• You're too lazy to do a task that takes less than a second to do
• If you're friends with someone like @fillerInk who likes to spam the chat with YouTube videos
• Because WhatsApp sucks 🦎
• Remember when YouTube chat existed.. yes i miss it too ⚰️

▶️ Play Around

• The browser is launched headless by default. See the browser in action by changing headless: false at L115
• Puppeteer downloads chromium by default. Using puppeteer-core you can connect to an existing browser installation

Does WhatsApp allow bots? Nope. Use their official API instead for long-term use cases!