Group Mention

[Clebersonc]

How to mention someone on group?

[avoylenko]

Here you go:

curl -X 'POST' \
  'http://127.0.0.1:3000/client/sendMessage/test' \
  -H 'accept: */*' \
  -H 'x-api-key: your_global_api_key_here' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "chatId": "[email protected]",
  "contentType": "string",
  "content": "Hello @mention_phone_number",
  "options": {
     "mentions": ["[email protected]"]
  }
}'

[damms005]

Hi @avoylenko I have a rather naive follow up question: in the code snipet you showed above, how is the authenticated session sent in the curl example you gave above, please?

I'll assume that WhatsApp will block unauthenticated requests, and the curl example you gave in your comment does not contains any auth/session cookie.

[avoylenko]

@damms005 the session name is passed as a part of URL as param:
http://127.0.0.1:3000/client/sendMessage/**test** , in this case the session name is test

[damms005]

Thanks for the response @avoylenko

My use case is that, for a web project I'm working on, I want to automate posting of WhatsApp status.

I've read the readme multiple times but couldn't figure it out. Can you help me with details of how to achieve this, please? This is what I have done so far:

• clone and install https://github.com/chrishubert/whatsapp-api locally
• install dependencies and run on available port (I am using port 2020)
• open in browser <- (I am stuck at this step). see screenshot below when I opened in browser

I opened the browser console and included it in the screenshot, perhaps you may find that helpful.

What am I doing wrong, please? Or can't use this project to achieve what I described above?

[avoylenko]

The swagger specification should be available on http://localhost:2020/api-docs in your case.

Your next steps are:

1. Create a new wwebjs web session:
   GET http://localhost:2020/session/start/test
2. Get and scan the QR code when its available to auth the session:
   GET http://localhost:2020/session/qr/test/image
3. Update the user status:
   POST http://localhost:2020/client/setStatus/test

[damms005]

Thanks so much @avoylenko I was able to make progress with the steps you gave above. However, I stopped at the update status step.

Now, coming back to really post the status, when I did http://localhost:2020/session/start/test I got response Session already exists for: test and then when I made a request to post status:

curl -X POST http://localhost:2020/client/setStatus/test

I got error response {"success":false,"error":"session_not_connected"}

How can I resolve this please?

[damms005]

I was able to use the docker option. Worked perfectly. However, I wrongly thought the client/setStatus/ endpoint is for creating a Status Update (the one that my contact scroll through etc.), but it actually is for updating profile's About string. Oopsy.

Also, checked the swagger docs included and couldn't find anything for creating the real Status Update like I described above. Am I looking at the wrong place? Or not supported. If not supported, how can I add it to the project so the feature is available for me and anyone else that may need it?

[damms005]

It's an upstream issue? @avoylenko pedroslopez/whatsapp-web.js#3373