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Send a Contacts Message

Send WhatsApp contacts messages from your WhatsApp Business Account.

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Params

keyrequired
string

A unique string. Please see the Keys and Resumability doc for more info.

messagerequired
object
fromId
string

The id of the phone number you want to send the message from. You can find this in the your WhatsApp Business dashboard. Note, this is not the phone number.

to
string

The phone number you want to send the message to.

contactsrequired
object

An array of contacts to be sent.

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Response

contacts
object

The contact information of who received the message

messages
object

An array of message ids that were sent

messaging_product
string

Always whatsapp

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Example Workflows

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import { Trigger } from "@trigger.dev/sdk";
import { events, sendVideo } from "@trigger.dev/whatsapp";

new Trigger({
  id: "demo",
  on: events.messageEvent({
    accountId: "<account_id>",
  }),
  run: async (event, ctx) => {
    //send an contacts message
    const contactsResponse = await sendContacts("contacts", {
      fromId: event.metadata.phone_number_id,
      to: event.message.from,
      contacts: [
        {
          name: {
            first_name: "Matt",
            last_name: "Aitken",
            formatted_name: "Matt Aitken",
          },
          phones: [
            {
              phone: "+12345678901",
            },
          ],
        },
      ],
    });
  },
}).listen();