Help with WhatsApp Cloud API in Python

[Trevor Hughes]

Greetings

I have cobbeled this code together to send whatsapp messages from the cloudAPI which I just set up

I can send freely to my own number but as soon as I put in any other number I get a failure - I believe this is nothing worng with my code but my understanding of the API - apparently you have to have permission to send messages? But how do you get that

Then the second question once I get thi workin is dealing with replies - eems I have to set up webhooks - I just want to be able to see replies on my phone or pc and respond to them manually - my initial use case is to automatically send messages to individuals on my staff - like info, shift lists etc and would like to be able to see if they respond (just on my phone where I can carry on the conversation)

Here is the code and outputs

import requests

import sys

from trevsecrets import access_token, phone_id

if len(sys.argv) > 1:

num = sys.argv[1]

else:

num = '+27724386800'

url = f'https://graph.facebook.com/v16.0/{phone_id}/messages'

headers = {

'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + access_token,

'Content-Type': 'application/json',

}

body = '''Greetings Earthling\n

WhatsApp has given me the powers to

send WhatsApps automatically from the

commandline using Python and an API\n

How magicis this??\n\n Trvr Out!'''

data = {

'messaging_product': 'WHATSAPP',

'recipient_type': 'individual',

'to': num,

'type': 'text',

'text': {

'preview_url': False,

'body': body

}

}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data)

print(response.ok)

print(response.text)

(dev_env) trev@ramapoesa:~/Dropbox/programming/python/whatsapp$ python whatsapp3.py +27724386800
True
{"messaging_product":"whatsapp","contacts":[{"input":"+27724386800","wa_id":"27724386800"}],"messages":[{"id":"wamid.HBgLMjc3MjQzODY4MDAVAgARGBI0NDgxRkQwQkNDRUM2M0M0RUYA"}]}
(dev_env) trev@ramapoesa:~/Dropbox/programming/python/whatsapp$ python whatsapp3.py +27214480508
False
{"error":{"message":"(#100) Invalid parameter","type":"OAuthException","code":100,"error_data":{"messaging_product":"whatsapp","details":"Invalid parameter"},"fbtrace_id":"APS5j_Mj6VienScWfzjiTxY"}}
(dev_env) trev@ramapoesa:~/Dropbox/programming/python/whatsapp$

[Francois Loubser]

Hi

Haven't tried whatsapp api, but probably better to use a python module that does the hard work for you, maybe try this:

https://towardsdatascience.com/automate-whatsapp-messages-with-python-in-3-steps-d64cf0de4539

Francois

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