Whatsapp web -scrape the documents,media,urls, text and save to local folder

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HI UiPath Community!!

I am automating WhatsApp Web using UiPath to scrape unread messages, media (images/videos), and documents (PDFs, Word files) from contacts.

I am able to capture text messages using the Get Text activity, but I’m struggling with capturing media and documents. When I use the Table Extraction activity, the output for images is a blob URL (e.g., blob:https://web.whatsapp.com/bdd2dd21-28ba-4e46-ab33-8e5ac2c2d70b), which is returned as text instead of a file URL. I need to capture the actual media file URLs and save them locally with the contact name and extension.

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Hi @latha.r ,

Welcome to UiPath Forum :innocent:

on your case, i guess

Use the UiPath WhatsApp Business Activity Package :

Extract Blob URLs and Convert to File URLs :

Since you’re getting blob URLs for media files, you can try using a custom activity or script to convert these blob URLs into actual file URLs. This might involve using JavaScript to download the blob content and save it as a file.

For API Integration: Please check this below

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Please let me know, if the above package works, incase if not let us know, will figure out different things.

Happy Automation :innocent:!

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Hi @sallavudeen_ashwin,

Without Whatsapp API, can you pls suggest any activity pls

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Hi @latha.r ,

These are dedicated package package that can resolve you UseCase and it is a recommended best way :innocent:

Alternatively, while using Table Extraction, you can enable url option in table extraction and later convert that alone into hyperlink. have you tried this option?

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yes tried. this outcome comes like this:blob:WhatsApp Web. and this is not hyperlink. this url append excel into text format.

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Could you please share the image how data looks like in excel ?