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Types of Content and Media you can use in WhatsApp 🖼

Jonathan Goodfellow Updated by Jonathan Goodfellow

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Want to know what content can be used in WhatsApp and its compatibility with Landbot? Check out this article to see all about it!

Text

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To format the text, you can use the below symbols, or use the in-app editor.

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Images

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Emoji

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GIF

Gifs are not displayed in WhatsApp bots, including no links to the gifs.

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Video Embed

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Audio File

Sending a voice message from the bot to the user

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Receiving a voice message from the user:

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There is no block that allows receiving a voice message, however, you can do this by using a text block and following a similar flow as shown below:

There is a simple explanation behind this: All WhatsApp recorded audios contain the word "oga" in the link, as you can see in the image below.

IMPORTANT: You need to give the Question: Text block a variable, so you can add it to the Conditions blocks. In this case, we've chosen the variable @voice_message.

In the Inbox section:

Location (in Google Maps)

Sending location to the user:

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Asking for the user's location:

WhatsApp's native location-sharing feature is compatible with Landbot! Your users can use the Send Your Current Location button to share their location with your bot!

The bot will then detect the Latitude and Longitude Coordinates from the location, and save them in the Variable you choose!

You can then use these coordinates later to search for your user's location, or even set up Conditions that will allow you to direct the flow based on where your user is!

To do this, you will need to save the coordinates of the location separately. You can use two combined Set Variable blocks to do this.

In the Set Variable block use the following values:

  • ${longitude}
  • ${latitude}

This kind of flow would look like this:

Another potential use case for this feature is the possibility of letting your users know the location of the branch of your business that is closest to them, based on their location! You can check out this article for a full guide on how to do this!

You can also use the WhatsApp Location feature to calculate the distance between 2 locations! Check out this article for a full guide!

Note: If the WhatsApp number is not added as a contact by the user, the links will not be clickable.

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Please keep in mind that is not possible to add hyperlinks in the text.

PDF file

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Lists (dynamic arrays of options)

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Contacts

Not supported currently

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