Automate Daily WeChat Greetings with Python: Step‑by‑Step Tutorial

Many programmers are single, and this tutorial shows how to use Python to automatically send a daily good‑morning or good‑night message to a chosen WeChat contact.

Prerequisites

Language: Python 3 IDE: PyCharm

Import Packages

We use wxpy to control WeChat, requests to fetch a daily quote, and Timer (a subclass of threading.Thread) for scheduling.

from wxpy import *
import requests
from threading import Timer

Login to WeChat

Create a Bot object with caching enabled so you don’t need to scan the QR code each time.

bot = Bot(cache_path=True)

Fetch Daily Quote

Define get_msg() to request the ICIBA daily sentence API and return the English sentence and its Chinese translation.

def get_msg():
    url = 'http://open.iciba.com/dsapi/'  # API endpoint
    html = requests.get(url)
    content = html.json()['content']   # English sentence
    note = html.json()['note']          # Chinese translation
    return content, note

Send Message

Define send_msg() to retrieve the quote, locate the friend by their WeChat nickname, send the English sentence, its translation, and a custom greeting, then schedule the next run with Timer. If sending fails, a failure notice is sent to yourself.

def send_msg():
    try:
        msgs = get_msg()
        content, note = msgs[0], msgs[1]
        my_friend = bot.friends().search(u'机器人')[0]  # target nickname
        my_friend.send(content)
        my_friend.send(note)
        my_friend.send(u'来自 brucepk 的问候')
        t = Timer(10, send_msg)  # repeat after 10 seconds (example)
        t.start()
    except BaseException:
        my_friend = bot.friends().search(u'brucepk')[0]
        my_friend.send(u'消息发送失败')

Run the Script

Execute the main function to start the automated messaging loop.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    send_msg()

Result

The script sends the daily quote to the specified contact. A screenshot of the successful messages is shown below.

Because the script must keep running, you can host it on a cloud server; some providers offer free trial periods.