Sharing link for WhatsApp Web version?

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Dan Cortazio picture Dan Cortazio · Mar 26, 2015 · Viewed 10.6k times · Source

I placed a button on my website with a link for people to share articles on Whatsapp. The code is this and works fine:

<a href="whatsapp://send?text=Hello%20World!">Hello, world!</a>

But this doesn't work on the desktop version. Does anybody know the url to share text/link on the Whatsapp Web? This here: https://web.whatsapp.com

Answer

h3t1 picture h3t1 · Feb 13, 2017

Note: To create a link with a pre-filled message, use this link (works only for the Whatsapp web version!)

Example:

<a href="https://web.whatsapp.com/send?text=textToshare" target="_blank">Share via Whatsapp</a>

UPDATE

Note: you can use this link which includes a pre-filled message which will automatically appear in a chat text field (works for all platforms!)

Example:

<a href="https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=textToshare" target="_blank">Share via Whatsapp API</a>

https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=textToshare

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