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Use cloud-hosted version of the WhatsApp Business API to send and receive messages

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Getting Started with WhatsApp Cloud API

Introduction

Welcome to the WhatsApp API from Meta.

Individual developers and existing Business Service Providers (BSPs) can now send and receive messages via the WhatsApp API using a cloud-hosted version of the WhatsApp Business API. Compared to the previous solutions, the cloud-based WhatsApp API is simpler to use and is a more cost-effective way for businesses to use WhatsApp. Please keep in mind the following configurations:

Name Description
Version Latest Graph API version. For example: v13.0
User-Access-Token Your user access token after signing up at developers.facebook.com.
WABA-ID Your WhatsApp Business Account (WABA) ID.
Phone-Number-ID ID for the phone number connected to the WhatsApp Business API. You can get this with a Get Phone Number ID request.
Business-ID Your Business' ID. Once you have your Phone-Number-ID, make a Get Business Profile request to get your Business' ID.
Recipient-Phone-Number Phone number that you want to send a WhatsApp message to.
Media-ID ID for the media to send a media message or media template message to your customers.
Media-URL URL for the media to download media content.

Install the Package

The package is compatible with Python versions 3 >=3.7, <= 3.11. Install the package from PyPi using the following pip command:

pip install moiz-gillani-whatsapp-cloud-api-sdk==1.0.2

You can also view the package at: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/moiz-gillani-whatsapp-cloud-api-sdk/1.0.2

Initialize the API Client

Note: Documentation for the client can be found here.

The following parameters are configurable for the API Client:

Parameter Type Description
version string Default: 'v13.0'
environment Environment The API environment.
Default: Environment.PRODUCTION
http_client_instance HttpClient The Http Client passed from the sdk user for making requests
override_http_client_configuration bool The value which determines to override properties of the passed Http Client from the sdk user
http_call_back HttpCallBack The callback value that is invoked before and after an HTTP call is made to an endpoint
timeout float The value to use for connection timeout.
Default: 60
max_retries int The number of times to retry an endpoint call if it fails.
Default: 0
backoff_factor float A backoff factor to apply between attempts after the second try.
Default: 2
retry_statuses Array of int The http statuses on which retry is to be done.
Default: [408, 413, 429, 500, 502, 503, 504, 521, 522, 524]
retry_methods Array of string The http methods on which retry is to be done.
Default: ['GET', 'PUT']
access_token string The OAuth 2.0 Access Token to use for API requests.

The API client can be initialized as follows:

from whatsappcloudapi.whatsappcloudapi_client import WhatsappcloudapiClient
from whatsappcloudapi.configuration import Environment

client = WhatsappcloudapiClient(
    access_token='AccessToken'
)

Authorization

This API uses OAuth 2 Bearer token.

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