Whatsapp integration with Vaadin

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1

Has anyone tried to integrate WhatsApp? I mean sending/receiving messages without leaving the vaadin app ? If so, please do share some examples

2

Vaadin does not care about the data source you are using. So it’s just like any other Rest APi; You use it and display the results. I doubt there are any examples looking at the pricing of WhatsApp for business.

3

You could probably also use an API like Twilio if you need to support additional channels as well.

4

There’s this component Whatsapp Button Add-on - Vaadin Add-on Directory that renders a button to start whatsapp conversations easily.

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As others said, Whatsapp have quite a good API and very thorough documentation to understand it (Meta bought it, so you can expect even higher quality as of now):

curl 'https://graph.facebook.com/v17.0/106540352242922/messages' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer EAAJB...' \
-d '
{
  "messaging_product": "whatsapp",
  "recipient_type": "individual",
  "to": "+16505555555",
  "type": "text",
  "text": {
    "preview_url": true,
    "body": "Here'\''s the info you requested! https://www.meta.com/quest/quest-3/"
  }
}'

Of course prerequisite to this to setup everything nicely, have a meta developer account, register an app, so on ,check get started part for it.