WhatsappElixir

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, "0.1.3"}
  ]
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