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WhatsApp short link without phone number not working anymore #655

Closed Amaimersion closed 4 years ago

Amaimersion commented 4 years ago

It is worked earlier: https://wa.me/?text=text, but at the moment it is not working anymore. If i add phone number in this link, then everything is alright: https://wa.me/8976?text=text.

This big link https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=text works without phone number.

HoldOffHunger commented 4 years ago

Ah, interesting!

Thanks for finding this, I'm going to take a closer look. I can confirm, wa.me needs the number to work, but api.whatsapp.com does not. I suspect this is a bug on their part, but it is worth checking out.

Fortunately, we list the good URL first on the doc page, and then the wa.me URL.

HoldOffHunger commented 4 years ago

Check this out:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56372575/send-message-on-whatsapp-on-whatsapp-web-using-html-or-javascript

I am using following code but its not working.. https://wa.me/?text=urlencodedtext

Seems like WhatsApp knows, but just doesn't care. I'll update the docs.

Amaimersion commented 4 years ago

It is strange to see such attitude from such big company as Facebook :/

I used https://wa.me/?text=text about 9 months ago in my app, and it perfectly worked. Issue on SO addressed 11 months ago. It looks like things on WhatsApp side breaks from time to time, like in any ordinary app (:

I'll update the docs.

Yes, you definitely should point this in documentation.

HoldOffHunger commented 4 years ago

Documentation has been updated! Thanks again for the info!