How do I send a message to a whatsapp channel?

[ernestoyoofi]

Describe the bug
I tried to send a message in channel with baileys, but it didn't work and instead sent to an id with nowhere to go.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. I tried to find the channel id by logging into whatsapp web using kiwi browser so that I can see the Inspect element, and I found the id 120363190224821113@newsletter as per the screenshot below
   

2. I created a trigger function where if I send the command !msgtochannel can send to the channel
   

3. After that I tried to send a command so that the message was sent to the channel, but the result was nothing at all, no error occurred.

   

   I don't know where this is actually going.

   

Expected behavior
I wish I could send messages to my whatsapp channel with baileys like on whatsapp web too.

Environment (please complete the following information):

• Is this on a server? No, I'm running it on my phone (termux)
• What do your connectOptions look like?

  {
    auth: state,
    logger: P({ level: "silent" }),
    printQRInTerminal: false,
    syncFullHistory: false,
    generateHighQualityLinkPreview: true,
    version: [2,2323,4],
    browser: ["Chrome (Linux)", "browser", ""],
  }

  
• Do you have multiple clients on the same IP? No
• Are you using a proxy? No

[ernestoyoofi]

a little addition, after i adding a console to see the sent message, it looks like sending a normal message but with the 120363190224821113@newsletter id

[zaadevofc]

a little addition, after i adding a console to see the sent message, it looks like sending a normal message but with the 120363190224821113@newsletter id

what is the name of the event you use?

[ernestoyoofi]

a little addition, after i adding a console to see the sent message, it looks like sending a normal message but with the 120363190224821113@newsletter id

what is the name of the event you use?

messages.upsert but actually no message was sent on the event, then i try to add .then(console.log) to see the structure of the message being sent

[ravindu01manoj]

a little addition, after i adding a console to see the sent message, it looks like sending a normal message but with the 120363190224821113@newsletter id

the JID replace 'newsletter' with 's.whatsapp.net' in JID normalization function. Channel messages are not end-to-end encrypted, so we cannot send messages to channels using the 'sendMessage' function.

[ernestoyoofi]

a little addition, after i adding a console to see the sent message, it looks like sending a normal message but with the 120363190224821113@newsletter id

the JID replace 'newsletter' with 's.whatsapp.net' in JID normalization function. Channel messages are not end-to-end encrypted, so we cannot send messages to channels using the 'sendMessage' function.

So, is there a workaround to send messages to the channel? or, maybe there is another solution to send a message to the channel, i'll wait for the latest update if there is one.

[ghlps]

@Auties00 any updates on this?

[Riders004]

Find the channel id in console by running the bot

[ernestoyoofi]

Find the channel id in console by running the bot

I didn't find the channel id at all, how?, in the bot console it's not there either

[mzayn]

still have update for this ?
cause want to send message at channel

[himanshuja]

Do anybody get any workaround on this? Thanks in Advance.

[Raf1nho]

I did lots of tests and research about this feature and seems like it's not really possible to send messages to channels through baileys right now. I couldn't find any workaround.

I've seem messages from @purpshell on the lib discord server saying they are working on supporting WhatsApp channels.

[Rippanteq7]

U can send it using sock.query

[Rippanteq7]

I've tried it by converting function from Whatsmeow library to Baileys library

[mzayn]

U can send it using sock.query

can your share the sample code for send message for that ?