Identify unread messages with more reability #17
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Change way of determining unread badges from Whatsapp.
Whatsapp uses generated class names, so very often they change and then the recipe stops working.
What I did was to find all spans with aria-label attribute (there are 3 of them: the "your phone is low on battery" close button, the "mark as unread" badge (the badge without a counter) and the threads with unread counters.
The difference between those spans is that only the unread badges has
background-color: var(--unread-marker-background);
.I could not find a way to read the
var(--unread-marker-background)
from JS, so I get the color from both light and dark theme and using them to find the unread badges.Finally, I try to parse the contents of the badge (for example: in portuguese, when a badge have (1), the aria-label is "1 mensagem não lida").
So I add that parse + 1 for each "marked as unread" (which have no counter nor aria-label content) and voi-la. A reliable counter that don't depend on Whatsapp class names anymore.