Meta recently released the cloud api to send messages from Whatsapp business, but I can't send it from the google app script.

I have this code, it runs fine... but it doesn't reach the user

    function SendToUser() {       var headers = {         'Authorization' : 'Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN',         'Content-Type': 'application/json'         };                   var payload = {         "messaging_product": "whatsapp",         "recipient_type": "individual",         "to": "PHONE_NUMBER",         "type": "text",         "text": { // the text object            "preview_url": false,            "body": "MESSAGE_CONTENT"         }        }               var options = {         method: "POST",         headers: headers,         payload: JSON.stringify(payload) // <--- Modified       }            let response = UrlFetchApp.fetch("https://graph.facebook.com/v13.0/FROM_PHONE_NUMBER_ID/messages", options);       Logger.log(response)                  }

Tag:google-apps-script, api, whatsapp

9 comments.

  1. Jones Heckler

    See this project...

    https://github.com/pro-cms/whatsappcloud-php

    This work for me :)

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    1. MT Designer

      Its google app script

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  2. Leandro Ascierto

    The same thing happens to me, the answer is correct but the message does not arrive, only the example of the Hellow_Word template is working, the others are not.

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  3. Ashutosh Pathak

    only approved templates can be sent as first message from whatsapp API account/phone number, try sending any message say 'Hi' back to api whatsapp account/phone number by the recipient to whom you were sending the message in the above script and then run the script, it runs for me by doing this.

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  4. apositivo

    dear friends of the stackoverflow community, The official documentation indicates that in order to send such messages, the conversation must be initiated by the user. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/conversation-types

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    1. Stephen Mudere

      Kudos man this is the correct answer. Spam prevention!

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    2. Albert Hidalgo

      This is an incorrect answer, the documentation indicate you need a pre-approved template by the meta developer team.

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  5. Jordan Kalebu

    Have look at Heyooh, it's a Javascript Wrapper for WhatsApp Cloud API

    Installation

    npm install heyooh

    Here how sending to send messages;

    import WhatsApp from heyhooh let messenger = new WhatsApp('TOKEN', phone_number_id='104xxxxxx') messenger.send_template("hello_world", "255757xxxxxx")
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    1. MT Designer

      Its google app script

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