Send via WhatsApp - Stytch Docs

import { StytchClient } from '@stytch/vanilla-js';

const stytch = new StytchClient('${publicToken}');

export const sendPasscode = () => {
stytch.otps.whatsapp.send('${examplePhoneNumber}', {
  expiration_minutes: 5,
});
};

{
  "status_code": 200,
  "request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
  "method_id": "phone-number-test-d5a3b680-e8a3-40c0-b815-ab79986666d0"
}

import { StytchClient } from '@stytch/vanilla-js';

const stytch = new StytchClient('${publicToken}');

export const sendPasscode = () => {
stytch.otps.whatsapp.send('${examplePhoneNumber}', {
  expiration_minutes: 5,
});
};

{
  "status_code": 200,
  "request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
  "method_id": "phone-number-test-d5a3b680-e8a3-40c0-b815-ab79986666d0"
}

import { StytchClient } from '@stytch/vanilla-js';

const stytch = new StytchClient('${publicToken}');

export const sendPasscode = () => {
stytch.otps.whatsapp.send('${examplePhoneNumber}', {
  expiration_minutes: 5,
});
};

{
  "status_code": 200,
  "request_id": "request-id-test-b05c992f-ebdc-489d-a754-c7e70ba13141",
  "method_id": "phone-number-test-d5a3b680-e8a3-40c0-b815-ab79986666d0"
}

Wraps the send via WhatsApp API endpoint. Call this method to send an WhatsApp passcode to existing users. This method is also used when you need to add a phone number to an existing Stytch User. If there is a currently valid Stytch session, and the user inputs a phone number that does not match one on their Stytch User object, upon successful authentication the new phone number will be added to the existing user. Note, this does expose a potential account enumeration vector, see our article on preventing account enumeration for more details.

Before configuring SMS or WhatsApp OTPs, please review how Stytch bills the costs of international OTPs and understand how to protect your app against toll fraud.

Parameters

phone_number

string

required

The phone number to use for one-time passcodes. The phone number should be in E.164 format (i.e. +1XXXXXXXXXX). You may use +10000000000 to test this endpoint, see Sandbox Values for more detail.

Configuration

object

Additional configuration.

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expiration_minutes

int

Set the expiration for the one-time passcode, in minutes. The minimum expiration is 1 minute and the maximum is 10 minutes. The default expiration is 2 minutes.

locale

string

Used to determine which language to use when sending the user this delivery method. Parameter is an IETF BCP 47 language tag, e.g. “en”. Supported languages are English (“en”), Spanish (“es”), French (“fr”) and Brazilian Portuguese (“pt-br”); if no value is provided, the copy defaults to English.

Response

method_id

string

The email_id or phone_id involved in the given authentication.

request_id

string

Globally unique UUID that is returned with every API call. This value is important to log for debugging purposes; we may ask for this value to help identify a specific API call when helping you debug an issue.

status_code

number

The HTTP status code of the response. Stytch follows standard HTTP response status code patterns, e.g. 2XX values equate to success, 3XX values are redirects, 4XX are client errors, and 5XX are server errors.

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