Mobile website “WhatsApp” button to send message to a specific number

Question

A mobile website can be customized to allow users to share a pre-filled message in WhatsApp to a manually chosen contact. As given here it is done using Custom URL Scheme. A

Answer 1

To send a Whatsapp message from a website, use the below URL.

URL: https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=XXXXX&text=dummy

Here the phone and text are parameters were one of them is required.

• phone: To whom we need to send the message
• text: The text needs to share.

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This URL is also can be used. It displays a blank screen if there is no application found!

URL: whatsapp://send?text=The text to share!

Note: All the above will work in web, only if WhatsApp desktop app is installed