You can utilize the Mudslide console client to send WhatsApp messages directly from the command line or within scripts, which is especially convenient for system administrators who wish to dispatch notifications through automation processes.<\/p>\n
Mudslide is built on the Baileys<\/strong> library, an unofficial open-source solution enabling interaction with the WhatsApp Web API via WebSockets, and is available on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n To begin, ensure that your machine has Node.js<\/strong> (along with the NPM<\/strong> package manager) and Git<\/strong> client installed. Guidance on installing Node.js can be found here<\/a>, while Git can be acquired via an MSI installer or through the WinGet<\/a> command:<\/p>\n Once your setup is complete, install the Mudslide package and its dependencies using the command:<\/p>\n To execute Mudslide from the command line, utilize the npx<\/strong> tool. Start by checking the available options:<\/p>\n The Mudslide client requires you to authenticate it as a secondary WhatsApp client. To login, run:<\/p>\n This command will generate a QR code for scanning with the WhatsApp app on your smartphone (navigate to Settings<\/strong> -> Linked Devices<\/strong> -> Link a device<\/strong>).<\/p>\n Upon successful authentication, you will receive a notification in the command prompt:<\/p>\n To test your setup, send a message to yourself:<\/p>\n Additionally, to message another user, use their phone number (saving the number in contacts beforehand is not necessary):<\/p>\n You can also send messages in one of your WhatsApp groups using the group ID format or tweak the command to introduce line breaks:<\/p>\n Mudslide allows sending images and files too, support for formats like PNG, JPG, and PDF is included:<\/p>\n You can even share location coordinates:<\/p>\n For messaging groups:<\/p>\n Check your authentication status whenever needed by running:<\/p>\n To log out and delete the session data, use:<\/p>\n Compiled versions of Mudslide are also available for download for other platforms, such as Linux.<\/p>\n By employing the Mudslide client, it’s possible to send WhatsApp messages directly from scripts or monitoring systems without relying on browsers or automation tools like Selenium.<\/p>\n For other related scripting instructions, explore:<\/p>\n You can utilize the Mudslide console client to send WhatsApp messages directly from the command line or within scripts, which is especially convenient for system administrators who wish to dispatch notifications through automation processes. Mudslide is built on the Baileys library, an unofficial open-source solution enabling interaction with the WhatsApp Web API via WebSockets, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,117,99,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","category-powershell","category-windows-11","category-windows-server-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10428,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions\/10428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}winget install --id Git.Git -e --source winget<\/code><\/pre>\nnpm install -g mudslide<\/code><\/pre>\nnpx mudslide -v<\/code><\/pre>\nnpx mudslide login<\/code><\/pre>\nSuccess: Logged in<\/code><\/pre>\nnpx mudslide send me \"Hello World\"<\/code><\/pre>\nnpx mudslide send 4998765432188 \"Hello World\"<\/code><\/pre>\nnpx mudslide send 4998765432188 \"HelloWorld\"<\/code><\/pre>\nnpx mudslide send-image 4998765432100 C:srcimage123.jpgnpx mudslide send-file 4998765432100 C:srcscan.pdf<\/code><\/pre>\nnpx mudslide@latest send-location me 48.159731 11.560668<\/code><\/pre>\nnpx mudslide send-group 12345678910 \"Hello\"<\/code><\/pre>\nnpx mudslide me<\/code><\/pre>\nnpx mudslide logout<\/code><\/pre>\n\n