GREEN-API for WhatsApp
GREEN-API is an official API that enables businesses to automate communication and interact with WhatsApp. With the GREEN-API for WhatsApp app in Make, you can send messages, files, contacts, location messages, polls, and media statuses. You can also forward messages, receive chat histories and contact information, create and manage groups, manage message queues, archive chats, and download files in your GREEN-API account.
Requirements
To use the GREEN-API for WhatsApp app in Make, you must have a GREEN-API account.
Connect GREEN-API for WhatsApp and Make
To get started, you must first create a connection between GREEN-API for WhatsApp and Make, allowing the two services to communicate.
To create the connection, you need to:
Obtain your ID instance and API key instance in GREEN-API
Before you create the connection in Make, you should first obtain an ID instance and API key instance in your GREEN-API account.
To obtain the instande ID and API key instance:
Log in to your GREEN-API account.
In the left sidebar, click Instances.
Click Create an instance and select a tariff.
Once your instance is created, copy the idInstance and apiTokenInstance, then store them in a safe place.
To authenticate your instance, scroll down and click Get QR.
Scan the generated QR via WhatsApp:
Settings > Linked devices > Link device.
Now your created instance is authorized. You'll use the copied and stored values in the ID Instance and API Token Instance connection fields in Make.
Create the connection in Make
Once you have your ID instance and API key instance, you're ready to create the connection in Make.
To create the connection:
Log in to your Make account, add a GREEN-API for WhatsApp module to your scenario, and click Create a connection.
Optional: In the Connection name field, enter a name for the connection.
In the ID Instance field, enter the idInstance you copied from your GREEN-API account.
In the API Token Instance field, enter the apiTokenInstance you copied from your GREEN-API account.
Click Save.
If prompted, authenticate your account and confirm access.
You've successfully created the connection and can now use the GREEN-API for WhatsApp app in your scenarios. If you want to make changes to your connection in the future, follow the steps here.
GREEN-API for WhatsApp modules
After connecting to the GREEN-API for WhatsApp app, you can use the following types of modules to build your scenarios.
Templates
You can look for GREEN-API for WhatsApp templates in Make's template gallery, where you'll find thousands of pre-created scenarios.