I am very sorry for the unreadability of the data
variable but that doesn't matter much. I am trying to automate the sending of messages using the WhatsApp cloud API and Python's request module.
url = "https://graph.facebook.com/v14.0/<ID>/messages"
headers = CaseInsensitiveDict()
headers["Authorization"] = "Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>"
headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
data = '{ "messaging_product": "whatsapp", "to": "91' + str(number) + '", "type": "template", "template": { "name": "notifier_message", "language": { "code": "en_US" }, "components": [ { "type": "body", "parameters": [ { "type": "text", "text": "' + salesman + '" }, { "type": "text", "text": "' + str(amount) + '" } ] } ] } }'
resp = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=data)
When I try to use this same code on my local PC's Django server, it works like charm, but it isn't working on pythonanywhere's Django servers. amount
, salesman
and number
are all variables which I am extracting from a form on the website. When I am run this on pythonanywhere and check the value of the variable resp.status_code
, it gives me just 401
.
After some research, I found that free users can only connect to outer websites using https, but also found a whitelist which listed .facebook.com
. I am not sure what this means, and if I can connect to graph.facebook.com
or not.
I would be very grateful for any kind of help you maybe able to provide, maybe I have a code issue, or maybe the bitter reality that what I want might not be possible here. Thanks a lot!