Sending Media Messages

Sending media from URL

Media message from URL

from pywa import WhatsApp

wa = WhatsApp(phone_id='972123456789', token='xxxxx')
recipient = '972987654321'

# - From URL
wa.send_image(
    to=recipient,
    image='https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/10/01/10/44/animal-468228_1280.jpg'
)

Sending media from local file

Media message from local file

from pywa import WhatsApp

wa = WhatsApp(phone_id='972123456789', token='xxxxx')
recipient = '972987654321'

# - From local file
wa.send_video(
    to=recipient,
    video='/path/to/video.mp4'
)

Sending media from file id

Media message from file id

from pywa import WhatsApp

wa = WhatsApp(phone_id='972123456789', token='xxxxx')
recipient = '972987654321'

audio_id = wa.upload_media(media='/path/to/audio.ogg', mime_type='audio/ogg')
wa.send_audio(
    to=recipient,
    audio=audio_id
)

Sending media from bytes

Media message from bytes

from pywa import WhatsApp
import requests

wa = WhatsApp(phone_id='972123456789', token='xxxxx')
recipient = '972987654321'

res = requests.get('https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2014/10/01/10/44/animal-468228_1280.jpg')
wa.send_document(
    to=recipient,
    document=res.content,
    filename='animal.jpg'
)