Wa-automate-nodejs: How to send GIFs?

[Douglas12ds]

Both sendFile() and sendImage() sends a static GIF.

[smashah]

In WhatsApp, gifs are treated as videos iirc. This will need some work. Good suggestion.

[smashah]

Related https://github.com/mukulhase/WebWhatsapp-Wrapper/issues/359

[marcelocecin]

did you try to use the sendGif function ?

[smashah]

@marcelocecin I made it. It doesn't work as expected yet. It needs more investigation. Let me know if you've got any other ideas.

[marcelocecin]

I found this two sources that can help

https://github.com/juliendangers/chat-grpc-poc/blob/fbd9ee5bce38bfe66cc0af485659b9e21c4a791f/domain/src/main/proto/whatsapp.proto

https://github.com/alfred82santa/whalesong/blob/6837ee3091e64f95166a4588a48395f262ba833e/whalesong/managers/message.py

[smashah]

Thanks for that @marcelocecin

Based on:
https://github.com/sigalor/whatsapp-web-reveng/blob/42023d191e54fe4278c0ec2ed0076ac8741b5cc3/doc/spec/def.proto#L206

GIFs are sent as video files. With a few gif attributes.

So maybe sulla-hotfix should autodetect gif files then convert to MP4 using:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/videofy

The only issue which I've found, while working on the existing (not-functioning) sendGif function, is that the sendMedia method does not allow overriding other attributes. So there must be a different method in the WhatsApp web code that allows overriding media attributes.

One step closer.

[smashah]

has anyone actually tried to send a gif on whatsapp web? It doesn't actually support sending gifs!

[smashah]

@marcelocecin @Douglas12ds I figured it out. New version on it's way.

[smashah]

@marcelocecin @Douglas12ds Happy Gif-ing! https://github.com/smashah/sulla#sending-gifs