Open chat

[alpires]

Hi Guys, exist some way to open a contact chat with this api?

[yotam180]

What do you mean by opening a contact chat? Visually open it on the screen? Or just start the conversation with them?

[alpires]

Hi @yotam180 I need visually open it on the screen.

[yotam180]

Haven't found a way yet. If I find one I'll let you know here.

[idoenk]

While there's no proper way to do this via api, yet;
It can be done by make a link element with specific href value, then simply attach it to body;
trigger click to it; built-in event to open chat should be triggered;

eg. Contact number = 123456789

<a href="http://wa.me/123456789" class="fakelink-openchat">123456789</a>

let el = document.createElement('a');
el.setAttribute('href', 'http://wa.me/123456789');
el.setAttribute('class', 'fakelink-openchat');
el.innerHTML = '123456789';
document.body.appendChild(el);

el.click();

you can add an event click to observe/setTimeout/setInterval to check whether chat target is active, hence chat is opened;

setTimeout(function(){
 let ca = Store.Chat.active();
 if (ca && ca.id && ca.id.user == '123456789'){
  // Chat is opened; should we remove element? 
  // $('.fakelink-openchat').remove()
  // do something more..
 }
}, 2 * 1000);

[yotam180]

Surely that's cool. Would you like to open a PR for that? If not, I can do that too.