Create chat for whatsapp contact saved in contacts

[FelixWeichselgartner]

Hi,

I'm trying to send a whatsapp message to a contact with given chatId that is saved in my phones contacts (and retrievable with getContact or getAllContacts) but without an active chat yet.

So far I tried:

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await client.sendMessageToId('[email protected]', 'Hello from sulla! 👋');

but this does not work for me. Also i dont really get the difference between sendText and sendMessageToId as the parameters seem to be the same.

Furthermore I could find a method like create chat or chatId or anything similar.

Does anybody have thoughts on that? Any help is appreciated. TY very much.

[joedutra]

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