How to Automate WhatsApp with Python in 2026 (No Selenium, No BS)

How to Automate WhatsApp with Python in 2026

Every WhatsApp automation tutorial still recommends selenium with fragile XPath selectors that break every week. There's a better way.

Why Playwright + whatsplay?

Playwright is faster, more reliable, and whatsplay wraps the WhatsApp Web DOM with stable selectors (attribute-based instead of minified class names).

What you'll build

A bot that monitors a price and sends an alert to your WhatsApp group.

Install

pip install whatsplay playwright

playwright install chromium

Step 1: Connect to WhatsApp

from whatsplay import Client

client = Client()

client.launch()

client.wait_for_login()

Step 2: Send a message

chat = client.get_chat("Mi Grupo")

chat.send_message("¡Hola! Esto es automático 🤖")

Step 3: Monitor + alert (real use case)

import httpx

def check_price():

r = httpx.get(")

PyPI: pip install whatsplay