[Feature] sending formatted links / href tags

[dcsan]

Is it possible to send formatted links from WeChaty?

from the web client if you send a link you will be able to view it yourself

it will send a nice link:

However on a native client it gets broken:

I'm assuming that on other clients (eg connected web clients from other users) it is broken too.

[dcsan]

so it seems like wechat does something server side to filter and prevent sending of links.

From official accounts you can send HREF tags no problem, and they arrive nicely formatted.

[dcsan]

using a native client, from the embedded browser you can "Send to chat" and it will provide a nicely formatted card.

However from the web client you don't have this feature, or even a way to forward this card.
So there doesn't seem to be a nice way to link between groupsbot and official accounts, other than bare URLs.

[dcsan]

from an official account there were some problems with sending HREFs, eg you have to use single quotes for the URL part.

[lijiarui]

It seems web puppet cannot do this kind of thing, but I found other product can do, as the pic shows:

Maybe wechaty can access other puppet such as Android puppet or other frame to do this.
I think it's really useful for this feature.

[dcsan]

When messages are sent from wechaty any URL links are just stripped out to plain text.

# send
this is <a href="http://bing.com">a link</a>

# recv
this is a link

this is watching data that the web client (wechaty) gets back not just what is displayed.

[dcsan]

when receiving a formatted card link

msg.type() is 49 which is defined as MsgType.APP

but no custom handling is implemented for this message type yet it seems.

[dcsan]

this is the content delivered when a link card is forwarded
but this forwarding cannot be done from the web client. It's unclear if a message like this could be sent from the wechaty API since that is connected as a webclient.

{
  "MsgId": "906811625006xxx",
  "FromUserName": "@@xxxx",
  "ToUserName": "@xxxx",
  "MsgType": 49,
  "Content": "@xxxx:<br/>&lt;msg&gt;&lt;appmsg appid=\"\" sdkver=\"0\"&gt;&lt;title&gt;Bing&lt;/title&gt;&lt;des&gt;http://cn.bing.com/?from=groupmessage&amp;amp;isappinstalled=0&lt;/des&gt;&lt;action&gt;&lt;/action&gt;&lt;type&gt;5&lt;/type&gt;&lt;showtype&gt;0&lt;/showtype&gt;&lt;soundtype&gt;0&lt;/soundtype&gt;&lt;mediatagname&gt;&lt;/mediatagname&gt;&lt;messageext&gt;&lt;/messageext&gt;&lt;messageaction&gt;&lt;/messageaction&gt;&lt;content&gt;&lt;/content&gt;&lt;contentattr&gt;0&lt;/contentattr&gt;&lt;url&gt;http://cn.bing.com/?from=groupmessage&amp;amp;isappinstalled=0&lt;/url&gt;&lt;lowurl&gt;&lt;/lowurl&gt;&lt;dataurl&gt;&lt;/dataurl&gt;&lt;lowdataurl&gt;&lt;/lowdataurl&gt;&lt;appattach&gt;&lt;totallen&gt;0&lt;/totallen&gt;&lt;attachid&gt;&lt;/attachid&gt;&lt;emoticonmd5&gt;&lt;/emoticonmd5&gt;&lt;fileext&gt;&lt;/fileext&gt;&lt;cdnthumburl&gt;304b0201000444304202010002042a4a844802033d11fd0204b4e2e265020458ca03a10420363038353937363436334063686174726f6f6d32385f313438393633343230380201000201000400&lt;/cdnthumburl&gt;&lt;cdnthumbmd5&gt;d428cf4b15b8756702551fe3bd0adf7b&lt;/cdnthumbmd5&gt;&lt;cdnthumblength&gt;7419&lt;/cdnthumblength&gt;&lt;cdnthumbwidth&gt;160&lt;/cdnthumbwidth&gt;&lt;cdnthumbheight&gt;160&lt;/cdnthumbheight&gt;&lt;cdnthumbaeskey&gt;d2096d266e7949be8c5bc20ac6704087&lt;/cdnthumbaeskey&gt;&lt;aeskey&gt;d2096d266e7949be8c5bc20ac6704087&lt;/aeskey&gt;&lt;encryver&gt;0&lt;/encryver&gt;&lt;/appattach&gt;&lt;extinfo&gt;&lt;/extinfo&gt;&lt;sourceusername&gt;&lt;/sourceusername&gt;&lt;sourcedisplayname&gt;&lt;/sourcedisplayname&gt;&lt;thumburl&gt;http://s1.cn.bing.net/th?id=OJ.ORCLss3bypt03w&amp;amp;pid=MSNJVFeeds&lt;/thumburl&gt;&lt;md5&gt;&lt;/md5&gt;&lt;statextstr&gt;&lt;/statextstr&gt;&lt;/appmsg&gt;&lt;fromusername&gt;wxid_6b78gjeal0bt22&lt;/fromusername&gt;&lt;scene&gt;0&lt;/scene&gt;&lt;appinfo&gt;&lt;version&gt;1&lt;/version&gt;&lt;appname&gt;&lt;/appname&gt;&lt;/appinfo&gt;&lt;commenturl&gt;&lt;/commenturl&gt;&lt;/msg&gt;<br/>",
  "Status": 3,
  "ImgStatus": 2,
  "CreateTime": xxxx,
  "VoiceLength": 0,
  "PlayLength": 0,
  "FileName": "Bing",
  "FileSize": "0",
  "MediaId": "",
  "Url": "http://cn.bing.com/?from=groupmessage&amp;isappinstalled=0",
  "AppMsgType": 5,
  "StatusNotifyCode": 0,
  "StatusNotifyUserName": "",
  "RecommendInfo": {
    "UserName": "",
    "NickName": "",
    "QQNum": 0,
    "Province": "",
    "City": "",
    "Content": "",
    "Signature": "",
    "Alias": "",
    "Scene": 0,
    "VerifyFlag": 0,
    "AttrStatus": 0,
    "Sex": 0,
    "Ticket": "",
    "OpCode": 0
  },
  "ForwardFlag": 0,
  "AppInfo": {
    "AppID": "",
    "Type": 0
  },
  "HasProductId": 0,
  "Ticket": "",
  "ImgHeight": 0,
  "ImgWidth": 0,
  "SubMsgType": 0,
  "NewMsgId": xxxx,
  "OriContent": "",
  "MMPeerUserName": "@@xxxx",
  "MMDigest": "mr magic:[link]Bing",
  "MMIsSend": false,
  "MMIsChatRoom": true,
  "MMUnread": true,
  "LocalID": "xxxx",
  "ClientMsgId": "xxx",
  "MMActualContent": "&lt;msg&gt;&lt;appmsg appid=\"\" sdkver=\"0\"&gt;&lt;title&gt;Bing&lt;/title&gt;&lt;des&gt;http://cn.bing.com/?from=groupmessage&amp;amp;isappinstalled=0&lt;/des&gt;&lt;action&gt;&lt;/action&gt;&lt;type&gt;5&lt;/type&gt;&lt;showtype&gt;0&lt;/showtype&gt;&lt;soundtype&gt;0&lt;/soundtype&gt;&lt;mediatagname&gt;&lt;/mediatagname&gt;&lt;messageext&gt;&lt;/messageext&gt;&lt;messageaction&gt;&lt;/messageaction&gt;&lt;content&gt;&lt;/content&gt;&lt;contentattr&gt;0&lt;/contentattr&gt;&lt;url&gt;http://cn.bing.com/?from=groupmessage&amp;amp;isappinstalled=0&lt;/url&gt;&lt;lowurl&gt;&lt;/lowurl&gt;&lt;dataurl&gt;&lt;/dataurl&gt;&lt;lowdataurl&gt;&lt;/lowdataurl&gt;&lt;appattach&gt;&lt;totallen&gt;0&lt;/totallen&gt;&lt;attachid&gt;&lt;/attachid&gt;&lt;emoticonmd5&gt;&lt;/emoticonmd5&gt;&lt;fileext&gt;&lt;/fileext&gt;&lt;cdnthumburl&gt;304b0201000444304202010002042a4a844802033d11fd0204b4e2e265020458ca03a10420363038353937363436334063686174726f6f6d32385f313438393633343230380201000201000400&lt;/cdnthumburl&gt;&lt;cdnthumbmd5&gt;d428cf4b15b8756702551fe3bd0adf7b&lt;/cdnthumbmd5&gt;&lt;cdnthumblength&gt;7419&lt;/cdnthumblength&gt;&lt;cdnthumbwidth&gt;160&lt;/cdnthumbwidth&gt;&lt;cdnthumbheight&gt;160&lt;/cdnthumbheight&gt;&lt;cdnthumbaeskey&gt;d2096d266e7949be8c5bc20ac6704087&lt;/cdnthumbaeskey&gt;&lt;aeskey&gt;d2096d266e7949be8c5bc20ac6704087&lt;/aeskey&gt;&lt;encryver&gt;0&lt;/encryver&gt;&lt;/appattach&gt;&lt;extinfo&gt;&lt;/extinfo&gt;&lt;sourceusername&gt;&lt;/sourceusername&gt;&lt;sourcedisplayname&gt;&lt;/sourcedisplayname&gt;&lt;thumburl&gt;http://s1.cn.bing.net/th?id=OJ.ORCLss3bypt03w&amp;amp;pid=MSNJVFeeds&lt;/thumburl&gt;&lt;md5&gt;&lt;/md5&gt;&lt;statextstr&gt;&lt;/statextstr&gt;&lt;/appmsg&gt;&lt;fromusername&gt;wxid_6b78gjeal0bt22&lt;/fromusername&gt;&lt;scene&gt;0&lt;/scene&gt;&lt;appinfo&gt;&lt;version&gt;1&lt;/version&gt;&lt;appname&gt;&lt;/appname&gt;&lt;/appinfo&gt;&lt;commenturl&gt;&lt;/commenturl&gt;&lt;/msg&gt;<br/>",
  "MMActualSender": "@xxxx",
  "MMDigestTime": "13:06",
  "MMDisplayTime": xxxx,
  "MMTime": "13:06",
  "MMIsAppMsg": true,
  "MMAppMsgDesc": "http://cn.bing.com/?from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=0"
}

[huan]

Duplicated with #718