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Let's Dive into Whapi.Cloud: A Three-Step Journey
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Let's Dive into Whapi.Cloud: A Three-Step Journey
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Enter a valid e-mail address and a password to log in to your personal cabinet. They serve as your keys to your very own personal dashboard at Whapi.Cloud.
Very important: If you have just bought and registered a new number in WhatsApp, do not connect the number immediately. Wait a day or a little more! Read more about number warm-up: Warming Up New Phone Numbers for WhatsApp API
In order to automate WhatsApp, you need to sync our API with your phone number. Here's how: navigate to your personal dashboard, select your channel, and get a QR code there. Then, open WhatsApp on your mobile device, go to Settings -> Linked devices -> Link a device -> Scan QR code.
Your WhatsApp number is now primed to work with our API. All that remains is to tweak the Webhook settings for sending and receiving messages, peruse our documentation, and test drive the capabilities of our platform.
To work with the API and develop the integration, you will need to know your API key, which you can get on the page of the channel you authorized (connected to the number)
Click to copy it and the API key will remain in your clipboard.
Once registered, instant access to a trial channel is yours. This free channel is your gateway to the full range of functionalities that our WhatsApp API provides. However, there are a few limitations:
5 chats per month;
150 messages per day;
30 WhatsApp availability checks per day;
1000 api calls per month;
You can upgrade your channel to a paid one, thereby lifting these restrictions. Alternatively, you can continue to use it for testing and development purposes in Sandbox mode.
Itβs take only 1 Minute to Get Started using the our easy-to-use Developer Tool:
On our GitHub you can find an implementation of a simple WhatsApp chatbot that demonstrates the basic functionality of sending and receiving messages of different types and working with groups.
Using this source code will allow you to customize the bot to your needs or take it as a basis for creating any other integration.
