29 Sep 2018

Click to send whatsapp with javascript

javascript tips

TL;DR You can use link below and place it on your button, or whatever. Its simply will open up whatsapp on user phone. But it isn't automatically send. https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=+&text=%20. use encodeURIComponent('your text here')

What we were built here it is a dynamic send to WhatsApp link with JavaScript approach you can use the link above and give it a try

Okay I'll use JSBin with this, first open up then its just easy you will use split() and join() string property on JavaScript here my script.

// https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=+&text=%20

var yourNumber = "your number in string";
var yourMessage = "your message in string";

// %20 mean space in link
// If you already had an array then you just join them with '%20'
// easy right

function getLinkWhastapp(number, message) {
number = yourNumber;
message = yourMessage.split(" ").join("%20");

return console.log(
"https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=" + number + "&text=%20" + message
);
}

getLinkWhastapp();

Copy that on jsbin, give phone number and message do you want, make sure you use WhatsApp, It will open up WhatsApp on your phone with the message you wrote.

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Important #

This post was made to learn JS split and join for production purpose you should use encodeURIComponent()

function getLinkWhastapp(number, message) {
var url =
"https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=" +
number +
"&text=" +
encodeURIComponent(message);

return url;
}