playing with whatsapp api
Whatsapp is a realy popular instatnt messaging platform. but unlike many other platforms - this platform is realy bounded to a phone and phone number, in the last year they enabled
Today I played a little bit with whatsapp, and found few url’s (web addresses) to play and interact with whatsapp. Each url has two forms: one that looks like a web address, and the other is in the form of whatsapp://command. The official commands are documented in whatsapp click to chat help page, but some aren’t documented there - and can be found here.
| command | whatsapp - web link | whatsapp - direct link[1] | whatsapp web link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just open the app | https://api.whatsapp.com/ | whatsapp://chat | https://web.whatsapp.com |
| open chat | https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=316123456 | whatsapp://send? phone=972526783413 | https://web.whatsapp.com/send?phone=316123456 |
| open chat with text | https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=316123456&text=I’m%20interested%20in%20your%20car%20for%20sale | whatsapp://send? phone=972526783413 &text=I’m interested in your car for sale | https://web.whatsapp.com/send?phone=316123456&text=I’m%20interested%20in%20your%20car%20for%20sale |
| open or join group | https://chat.whatsapp.com/1uOhVhVGhdOHuGZ9Lckxkp [2] | whatsapp://chat? code=1uOhVhVGhdOHuGZ9Lckxkp[2] | can’t find one |
Few more resources:
A. to create more costumised url’s (e,g: https://whatsapp.oodi.co.il/), use this tool (haven’t tested).
B. this looks like an automation tool for whatsapp. it seems publicly unmaintained, but this method can still work (see here).
C. this tool can show you the content of your whatsapp backup from google drive this one can use to extract statistics from it.
D. apiwha seems to have a public api to integrate whatsapp with other tools, it seems they reversed whatsapp web protocol - and you can get some functionality from it.
E. Github is full with whatsapp api, bots and tools, most of them aren’t maintained and can’t be used (blocked by whatsapp).
G. projects that seems maintained:
whatsapp-framework - for costum bot
franz - multi messaging desktop app (this is the only desktop project here that not seems to depend on selenium!)
Whatsapp Spammer - uses autogui (instead of selenium)
whatsapp tools for rooted phones using exposed
Notes:
[1] to use this links in your website, use the following html code:
<a href="whatsapp://chat">click me</a>
[2] to get the group code (like 1uOhVhVGhdOHuGZ9Lckxkp in this example), look at the group invite link. keep in mind that the links are going to expire with the invite link!