如何制作Whatsapp共享框

Question

Working on a new website, with an option to share the page: I made the Facebook share with image and title description etc...

Now I want to make a Whatsapp share too, but when I look in Whatsapp API I see only text mention.

But I see places that do make share box on whatsapp...

Here some image example I found in google images:

Please help me understand how to define this and make a href button of it

Thanks!

Answer 1

There is no official Whatsapp API you could use for sending messages from a PC. The only "API" Whatsapp provides is the sharing API for mobile phones and the whatsapp:// protocol - which does only work on clients having Whatsapp installed.

Using that whatsapp:// protocol, you can send a message containing text-only. Whatsapp will automatically resolve contained URLs and display image and title according to the screenshot you linked.

Taking a look at the example at crunchify , they do exactly the same thing.

$whatsappURL = 'whatsapp://send?text='.$crunchifyTitle . ' ' . $crunchifyURL;

What will result in exactly the output contained in your screenshot.