Whats app url

Hi, Yes, we will be adding this shortly. Thank you!

I can’t seem to find the WhatsApp URL. Is it displayed on their Facebook profile?

thanks so much !

The full url seems to be

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.whatsapp.com%2Fsend%3Fphone%3D%252B353861005548%26app%3Dfacebook%26entry_point%3Dpage_cta%26fbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3vg-YB4QVPBfLBg36iYOXFXZhjD6SdM0FTDaaRsuYjycyJsEArBDTc_bs_aem_yMjOxO27G86RDw2wuP81Eg&h=AT0O6fF9LLRkNnUNPZlLeBIdmvG4WOl0qte09EusibZP8YIjos6RLWwg8_aqzRIM5yuW78z_Q1tkAccEn768V2YpW0xG83_ktlp4F-2P_iVVqVeCKVmF2RvdkrJWeZKj23Av4Vil3e25mrnKqhxG-p5d

actual link is

https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=%2B353861005548

Hopefully you can extract the correct link

mmmmm actually not sure if this is possible

correct character's are

=%2B353861005548

but url has

25

before it

which leads to dead link

https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=%252B353861005548

Correct link is

https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=%2B353861005548

I guess you can just export the full FB url and it will re direct to correct whats app page. ( better than nothing )

Another example

https://www.facebook.com/aporroeurope

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.whatsapp.com%2Fsend%3Fphone%3D%252B4367763948870%26app%3Dfacebook%26entry_point%3Dpage_cta%26fbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1cDvE1N6fFEC5WEzmXLuNM_wxR_ZEcehse-jvN_Xh6XxWtVxfMgAqLhZY_aem_YZfVTquZynry3hfh63AJUg&h=AT0mCnYiroUYfQFggxTu9x4k2gy1W3ETb9bh9goXlHBOvPveHvbKeKdd43xHFafhuoO2hBbWwDfBNaE4iMxwllIf67DTu3-S-dBRZ02mqRvDo478GQPRY--FpE5EgoBpGDjBR7gDRw4w5GdHWSQNv1av

Actually, they all seem to have 25

if you can strip this out

3D%25

and update the rest of url, you maybe able to get the correct url.

Actually, we can extract it from this page: https://www.facebook.com/aporroeurope, but for the other one, it seems to be private. You need to be logged in to see the WhatsApp link.

please find attached a sample of the output. does this look good ?

below link looks good

https://wa.me/1332201590

directing to

https://api.whatsapp.com/send/?phone=1332201590&text&type=phone_number&app_absent=0

Whats the FB url, will confirm :) ?

this is the fb url https://www.facebook.com/aporroeurope

it seems to be the wrong phone number

Chat on WhatsApp with +43 677 63948870

is for

https://www.facebook.com/aporroeurope

the link / number you sent is for

Chat on WhatsApp with 1332201590

could you please double check this ? as you can see below that is the correct whatsapp number

It looks like they have two different numbers on the account, the button is a different one. It looks like your one is correct

https://aporro.eu/pages/contact-us

All should be good now! We have deployed a new version with the latest updates. Please note that, in some cases, the WhatsApp number is only available when the user is logged in. To double-check, make sure to view the page while not logged in to verify if it contains a WhatsApp number.

Thank you!

Hi Oussema FRIKHA (oussemaFr)

No, this does not seem to be picking up any, I have ran against 1000+ urls so far, and it has not picked up 1 !

For example

https://www.facebook.com/been.london

I think most profiles, you need to be logged in. I am not sure how this works on apify, can you set up a dummy account and pretend to login as an option ?

Kind Regards

Scott

Hi again, as I mentioned before, please double-check this by trying to open the Facebook page when you are not logged in. You will see that you are unable to get the WhatsApp profile data.

We will support this in the future, and you will need to create your own accounts and use cookies as input into our actor.

How do I input the cookie ? I see on other actors you can do it. No need to respond today, I appreciate its the weekend.

https://console.apify.com/actors/0GoMZ3glac69DWRtz/

Many thanks

Scott

Hi Scott,

I’m happy to let you know that a new update has been published, and the Lightweight Facebook Pages Scraper now supports cookie input! This means you can now scrape private Facebook pages by providing your cookies.

To use this feature, follow these steps:

1. Install the Cookie-Editor extension (https://cookie-editor.com/).
2. Log in to your facebook.com account.
3. Use the extension to export your cookies as JSON and paste them into the cookies field in the scraper settings.

Feel free to try it out and let us know if you have any questions. We’re always here to help!

Many thanks, Oussema Frikha

Can you give me a little more information on how to install the cookie. When I installed the Cookie Editor, i do not see any JSON export, I see c_user or datr, etc etc.

Please click the Export button, then select the JSON option.

thank you, that worked with pulling the whats app url, but the url is incorrect

url pulled was

https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=+447850414937&app=facebook&entry_point=page_cta

Correct url is

https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=%2B447850414937&app=facebook&entry_point=page_cta

Run

https://console.apify.com/actors/IPYzJr9bFeFUufskW/runs/uy64caYPJOwIqv2gK#log

The URL you’re seeing is quoted, which is why it appears formatted differently. Both URLs are actually the same, with the only difference being how the + symbol is encoded:

• URL pulled: https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=+447850414937&app=facebook&entry_point=page_cta
• Correct URL: https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=%2B447850414937&app=facebook&entry_point=page_cta

The %2B in the second URL represents a + sign in URL encoding, so both formats work identically.

should we have it in this format https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=%2B447850414937&app=facebook&entry_point=page_cta ?

yes please, it would seem you need to have it in that format, if you dont you get this error

"This link is incorrect. Close this window and try a different link."

We have deployed a new version please double check and let us know if all good thank you

Did not seem to pull results ?

https://console.apify.com/actors/IPYzJr9bFeFUufskW/runs/KOl3lRhpxlgZc6A0D#log

Proxy error.

issue should have been fixed now