osacript needs to be reworked for Big Sur

[thecircleisround]

Current release does not work correctly with Big Sur. A lot easier to do this now without helper js files but requires knowing account id for the number you want to use which is specific to the machine you are using.

def send_imessage(phone,message):
    accountid = "ACCOUNT_ID"
    script = '''
	tell application "Messages"
        set theBuddy to participant "{}" of account id "{}"
        send "{}" to theBuddy
    end tell
        '''.format(phone,accountid,message)
    Popen(['osascript', '-e', script])

works for me and could be refactored to work with this package

[thecircleisround]

should note that this method can send iMessage OR SMS depending on the account id

[kevinschaich]

Made a new package to do this w/ Monterey & later:

https://github.com/kevinschaich/py-imessage-shortcuts

[thecircleisround]

Cool. I've since been using this:

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE

def send_imessage(phone, message):
    script = f'''
    tell application "Messages"
        set targetService to 1st account whose service type = SMS
        set targetBuddy to participant "{phone}" of targetService
        send "{message}" to targetBuddy
    end tell
    ''' 
    process = Popen(['osascript', '-e', script],stdout=PIPE)
    output = (process.communicate())
    return output