Sharing link on WhatsApp from mobile website not application for Android

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I have developed a website which is mainly used in mobile phones  I want to allow users to share information directly from the web page into WhatsApp   Using UserAgent detection I can distinguish between Android and iOS  I was able to discover that in order to implement the above in iOS I can use the URL   href  whatsapp   send text http   www example com    I m still looking for the solution to be used when the OS is Android  as the above doesn t work   I guess it is somehow related to using  intent  in Android  but I couldn t figure out how to do it as parameter for href

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Just saw it on a website and seems to work on latest Android with latest chrome and whatsapp now too! Give the link a new shot!

<a href="whatsapp://send?text=The text to share!" data-action="share/whatsapp/share">Share via Whatsapp</a>

Rechecked it today (17^th April 2015):
Works for me on iOS 8 (iPhone 6, latest versions) Android 5 (Nexus 5, latest versions).

It also works on Windows Phone.

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Just tested the whatsapp    scheme on my super old Android 2 3 3 with Whats App 2 11 301  works like a charm  It seems to be just the Whats App version  Since Whats App is forcing everyone to update  it should be safe to use it   The Whats App documentation also mention that scheme  http   www whatsapp com faq en android 28000012  I m using this on a production site now and will update here  if I get any user complaints   Edit  Nov 14   No user complaints after a couple of weeks

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In general it makes sense only to display the Whatsapp Link on iOS or Android Devices only  using java script       if  navigator userAgent match  iPhone Android i           document write   lt a href  whatsapp   send text See    gt Share on WhatApp lt  a gt

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LATEST UPDATE  Now you can use the latest API from whatsapp https   wa me  without worrying about the user agent  the API will do the user agent handling   Share pre-filled text with contact selection option in respective whatsapp client  Android   iOS   Webapp    https   wa me  text urlencodedtext   Open Chat Dialog for a particular whatsapp user in respective whatsapp client  Android   iOS   Webapp    https   wa me whatsappphonenumber   Share pre-filled text with a particular user  Combine above two     https   wa me whatsappphonenumber  text urlencodedtext   Note   whatsappphonenumber should be full phone number in international format  Omit any zeroes  brackets or dashes when adding the phone number in international format   For official documentation visit https   faq whatsapp com en general 26000030

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The above answers are bit outdated  Although those method work  but by using below method  you can share any text to a predefined number  The below method works for android  WhatsApp web  IOS etc   You just need to use this format    lt a href  https   api whatsapp com send phone whatsappphonenumber amp text urlencodedtext  gt  lt  a gt    UPDATE-- Use this from now Nov-2018    lt a href  https   wa me whatsappphonenumber  text urlencodedtext  gt  lt  a gt         Use  https   wa me 15551234567      Don t use  https   wa me  001- 555 1234567      To create your own link with a pre-filled message that will   automatically appear in the text field of a chat  use   https   wa me whatsappphonenumber  text urlencodedtext where   whatsappphonenumber is a full phone number in international format and   URL-encodedtext is the URL-encoded pre-filled message       Example https   wa me 15551234567 text I m 20interested 20in 20your 20car 20for 20sale      To create a link with just a pre-filled message  use   https   wa me  text urlencodedtext      Example https   wa me  text I m 20inquiring 20about 20the 20apartment 20listing      After clicking on the link  you will be shown a list of contacts you   can send your message to    For more information  see https   www whatsapp com faq en general 26000030

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Recently WhatsApp updated on its official website that we need to use  this HTML tag in order to make it shareable to mobile sites    x000D   x000D   lt a href  whatsapp   send text Hello 20World   gt Hello  world  lt  a gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    You can replace text  to have your link or any text content

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Use  https   wa me 1XXXXXXXXXX Don t use  https   wa me  001- XXX XXXXXXX  The pre-filled message will automatically appear in the text field of a chat  Use https   wa me whatsappphonenumber text urlencodedtext where whatsappphonenumber is a full phone number in international format and urlencodedtext is the URL-encoded pre-filled message   Example  https   wa me 1XXXXXXXXXX text I m 20interested 20in 20your 20car 20for 20sale  To create a link with just a pre-filled message  use https   wa me  text urlencodedtext  Example  https   wa me  text I m 20inquiring 20about 20the 20apartment 20listing   After clicking on the link  you   ll be shown a list of contacts you can send your message to

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According to the new documentation  the link is now     lt a href  https   wa me  text urlencodedtext  gt Share this lt  a gt    If it doesn t work  try this one     lt a href  whatsapp   send text urlencodedtext  gt Share this lt  a gt

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This code worked for me   After clicking on the link  it will ask you to choose the contact to share a message    x000D   x000D   lt a href  https   api whatsapp com send text enter message here  gt Click here to share on Whatsapp lt  a gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    You can add target   blank  attribute to open it in a new window or tab   I don t think the phone number is needed when someone wants to share a particular message or article

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Try to make it this way    lt a href  https   wa me  phone  text  text URL encoded   gt Link lt  a gt    Even you can send messages without enter the phone number in the link    lt a href  https   wa me  text Hello 20world   gt Say hello lt  a gt    After clicking on the link  you will be shown a list of contacts you can send your message to   More info in https   faq whatsapp com en general 26000030   Good luck

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Currently  it s very easy to achieve this  You only need to add the following code to your pages    lt a href  whatsapp   send text  lt  lt HERE GOES THE URL ENCODED TEXT YOU WANT TO SHARE gt  gt   data-action  share whatsapp share  gt Share via Whatsapp lt  a gt    And that s it  No Javascript needed  nothing else needed  Of course you can style it as you want and include a nice Whatsapp icon   I tested this in my Android device with Google Chrome  The versions    Android 4 1 2  Jelly Bean  Chrome Mobile 37 0 2062 117  Also tested on Firefox Mobile 31 0  Whatsapp V 2 11 399   It also works on iOS  I ve made a quick test on an iPhone 5 with Safari and it works as well   Hope this helps someone   -

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The official docs say to use  wa me   Don t use wa me   I apologize for the length of these results  but it s been a rapidly-evolving issue     April  2020 Results Share Link  This link is incorrect  Close this window and try a different link   May  2020 Results Share Link GitHub Ticket  WhatsApp short link without phone number not working anymore  We couldn t find the page you were looking for Looks like you re looking for a page that doesn t exist  Or a page we might have just deleted  Either way  go back or be sure to check the url  your spelling and try again   August  2020 Results Share Link  Works as expected   LATEST - October  2020 Results Share Link   Broken again    og image tag previews are disabled when using wa me   Based on some of the comments I m seeing  it seems like this still be an intermittent problem  so  going forward  I recommend you stick to the api whatsapp com URL  If you want to share  you must absolutely use one of the two following URL formats  https   api whatsapp com send text YourShareTextHere https   api whatsapp com send text YourShareTextHere amp phone 123  If you are interested in watching a project that keeps track of these URLs  then check us out   https   github com bradvin social-share-urls telegramme

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Switch the whatsapp share links according to the platform whether desktop or mobile   This works with or without providing the phone number in the link   For Mobile     vm LinkTextToShare    https   api whatsapp com send text     encodeURIComponent window location href        window open vm LinkTextToShare   blank      For Desktop     vm LinkTextToShare    https   web whatsapp com send l en amp text     encodeURIComponent window location href        window open vm LinkTextToShare   blank

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I m afraid that WhatsApp for Android does not currently support to be called from a web browser   I had the same requirement for my current project  and since I couldn t find any proper information I ended up downloading the APK file   In Android  if an application wants to be called from a web browser  it needs to define an Activity with the category android intent category BROWSABLE   You can find more information about this here  https   developers google com chrome mobile docs intents  If you take a look to the WhatsApp AndroidManifest xml file  the only Activiy with category BROWSABLE is this one    lt activity android name  com whatsapp Conversation    android configChanges  keyboard keyboardHidden orientation screenLayout uiMode screenSize smallestScreenSize  android windowSoftInputMode  stateUnchanged  gt           lt intent-filter gt               lt action android name  android intent action SENDTO    gt               lt category android name  android intent category DEFAULT    gt               lt category android name  android intent category BROWSABLE    gt               lt data android scheme  sms    gt               lt data android scheme  smsto    gt           lt  intent-filter gt       lt  activity gt    I ve been playing with it for a while  and I couldn t make it to work  The most I got was to open the WhatsApp application from Chrome  but I couldn t figure out a way to set the message content and recipient    Since it is not documented by the WhatsApp team  I think this is still work in progress  It looks like in the future WhatsApp will handle SMS too   The only way to get more information is by reaching the WhatsApp dev team  what I tried  but I m still waiting for a response   Regards

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use it like  whatsapp   send text     encodeURIComponent your text goes here   it will definitely work

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