Send message to Whatsapp contact

[RitterK]

Hi,

I'm new here and maybe it is easy.. But I do not get it, how to send a message to a specific contact via Whatsapp. E.g. send a message when driving home..

Thanks for help and teaching!

[Martin]

Hi,

There's no built-in support to send Whatsapp messages since Whatsapp does not offer an official API. Starting with the next update you could send automatic replies to incoming Whatsapp messages but this is a somewhat unofficial feature since it uses the Android Wear features provided by Whatsapp and support for this might be changed or removed by Whatsapp in the future without notice.

Alternatively you could use an action to send a regular SMS or emails with Automagic.

Regards,
Martin

[bulentcandan]

There is a simple assistant flow at this link (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4197)

Please see the "send text" section of the flow. Actually it's a share action for whatsapp. First I tried "Action : Activity Start / action : android.intent.action.SENDTO" intent action but it couldn't send a message to a specified whatsapp contact. Then I used "Action : Activity Start
action : android.intent.action.SEND" intent action and it's working but you just need to touch a whatsapp contact on the "whatsapp contact picker" and a confirmation box because of whatsapp interface behavior.

[RitterK]

Thanks for your help. So I Don't need to try further.. It is not possible for the moment to send automatically (without user interaction).