I am having an issue with some websites. Sometimes, a link to Whatsapp is including the text that comes with the link, and sometimes, it doesn’t. I haven’t been able to figure out where the difference is.
See this URL clicking on the link to Whatsapp opens the contact with the text associated with my link. Great.
Yeah, you cant control what the API does once you send it the information. That’s their API code, not yours.
Obviously out of my reach. I was just hoping that a parameter might be available but reading this article where it says that By default, URLs sent in templated WhatsApp messages only become clickable when the person who received the message responds to the message or adds the sender to their contacts. This is a security measure for spam control, implemented by WhatsApp.
Once a mobile user has responded to your message or added your number to their contacts list, the links in your messages will become clickable for them. was pretty clear the reason behind it. I am assuming they have taken it a step further and are now blocking the text as well. If anybody around had some insight about that, it would be welcome.
In the case where the text didn’t go thru, it involves someone with whom I have never chatted on WhatsApp, I added the number on my contact list but it didn’t change a thing. The second case, however, involves a contact with whom I have previously chatted.
I reckon—and this is just a wild guess—that Meta might be charging to allow URLs and text to go through.
Well no, it’ll be Meta not wanting your website to be able to send spam URL’s to any whatsapp number under the sun.
Would you like me to be able to send http://this.is.a.link.to.bad.things to your phone and have it show up as a clickable link if you dont know me? Cause all I have to do is put a URL in my browser to do it…
You’re right that a http://this.is.a.link.to.bad.things might come through.
But I reckon that a lot of my clients would gladly accept the risk because they do like to know what their customers are seeing on their website when clicking on the Whatsapp link.
Besides their links are preformatted http://inmo.io/XXX1234 so perhaps, as paid feature that might be filtered somehow to avoid the risk you’re rightly pointing to.
