sending and receiving photos?

[deduzzo]

It's possibile to send and receive photos? You can give an example?
Thanks for the great work!

[JRakhimov]

Hi, I am looking for this feature too and my research result is that WBOT module has this function in api (sendImage method) but for this we need inject/include modules: UserConstructor, MediaCollection. My question, @pedroslopez how can we include other models like Message module?

[dannielio]

@pedroslopez Could something like this help?

https://gist.github.com/phpRajat/a6422922efae32914f4dbd1082f3f412

[pedroslopez]

Receiving photos is now possible as of v0.3 (https://github.com/pedroslopez/whatsapp-web.js/releases/tag/v0.3.0)

I'll leave this issue open until sending is also implemented :)

[aliyss]

window.WAPI.sendImage = function (imgBase64, chatid, filename, caption, done) {
//var idUser = new window.Store.UserConstructor(chatid);
var idUser = new window.Store.UserConstructor(chatid, { intentionallyUsePrivateConstructor: true });
// create new chat
return Store.Chat.find(idUser).then((chat) => {
    var mediaBlob = window.WAPI.base64ImageToFile(imgBase64, filename);
    var mc = new Store.MediaCollection();
    mc.processFiles([mediaBlob], chat, 1).then(() => {
        var media = mc.models[0];
        media.sendToChat(chat, { caption: caption });
        if (done !== undefined) done(true);
    });
});
}

Stole it from here: https://github.com/mukulhase/WebWhatsapp-Wrapper/blob/master/webwhatsapi/js/wapi.js

Edit: Will look into it asap.

[pedroslopez]

@aliyss I was actually working in this yesterday using a similar solution, and I got it working for any attachment type (except videos for whatever reason), however the ‘.sendToChat’ part doesn’t allow us to get the sent message ID.

I basically left off reimplementing the sendToChat function myself combining it with our custom sendMessage function that assigns the ID manually. This seemed to work fine but I need to do some additional testing and clean things up.

[aliyss]

Alright. In that case I'll leave my hands out of it. 😇