WhatsappElixir

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WhatsappElixir is an Elixir library for interacting with the WhatsApp API. It allows you to handle incoming messages and send responses efficiently using a clean and simple API.

Installation

To use WhatsappElixir in your project, add it to your mix.exs dependencies:

def deps do
  [
    {:whatsapp_elixir, "0.1.7"}
  ]
end

## Configuration

Configure your WhatsApp credentials in config/config.exs:

  config :whatsapp_elixir,WhatsappElixir.HTTP,
    token: System.get_env("WHATSAPP_TOKEN"),
    phone_number_id: System.get_env("WHATSAPP_PHONE_NUMBER_ID"),
    verify_token: System.get_env("VERIFY_TOKEN")

"""

Config can be left blank if you wish to pass the config at the app.

## Usage sending whatsapp message example this only works with users with existing sessions to send message first time use templated message on user reply session will be created.

### messages & templated message

  defmodule MyModule do
  alias WhatsappElixir.Messages

  def send_message(mobile_number) do
   Messages.send_message(mobile_number, "Hello World")
  end

  def send_templated(mobile_number) do
  Messages.send_template("hello_world", mobile_number, [] )
  end

 end

Sends an image message to a WhatsApp user.

Args

  • image: Image id or link of the image
  • recipient_id: Phone number of the user with country code without +
  • recipient_type: Type of the recipient, either individual or group (default is "individual")
  • caption: Caption of the image (default is "")
  • link: Whether to send an image id or an image link, True means that the image is a link, False means that the image is an id (default is true)
 iex> WhatsappElixir.send_image("https://i.imgur.com/Fh7XVYY.jpeg", "5511999999999")

Send Template Message

defmodule MyModule do
  alias WhatsappElixir.Messages

  def send_templated(mobile_number) do
    Messages.send_template("hello_world", mobile_number, [])
  end
end