Does WhatsApp offer an open API

Question

I wonder if there is an open API to access WhatsApp through an internet protocol  The concrete question is    Is there a way to send a message to a list of WhatsApp users from an internet server   Is there any open concept for authentication   Or - is WhatsApp at the end a closed system without any open API through an internet protocol

User · Answer

WhatsApp does not have a API available for public use  As you put it  it s a closed system   However  they provide several other ways in which your iPhone application can interact with WhatsApp  through custom URL schemes  share extension and through the Document Interaction API      See this WhatsApp FAQ article

User · Answer

1  It looks possible  This info on Github describes how to create a java program to send a message using the whatsapp encryption protocol from WhisperSystems   2  No  See the whatsapp security white paper   3  See  1

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is the correct answer   WhatsApp is intentionally a closed system without an API for external access    There were several projects available that reverse engineered the WhatsApp webservice interfaces  However  to my knowledge all of them are now discontinued defunct due to legal action against them from WhatsApp   For mobile phone applications there is a limited URL-Scheme-API available on IPhone and Android  Android-intent possible as well

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