How Do I: send this whatsapp template about vonage-node-sdk

[manchuck]

@JaimeCasillasBluu The @vonage/messages package can help you out with this. There is a built in class which (when using the messages client) will format the request properly for you. Here is an example taken from our code snippets repository:

const { Vonage } = require('@vonage/server-sdk');
const { WhatsAppTemplate } = require('@vonage/messages');

const vonage = new Vonage({
  apiKey: VONAGE_API_KEY,
  apiSecret: VONAGE_API_SECRET,
  applicationId: VONAGE_APPLICATION_ID,
  privateKey: VONAGE_PRIVATE_KEY,
});

vonage.messages.send(
  new WhatsAppTemplate({
    template: {
      name: `${WHATSAPP_TEMPLATE_NAMESPACE}:${WHATSAPP_TEMPLATE_NAME}`,
      parameters: [
        'Vonage Verification',
        '64873',
        '10',
      ],
    },
    to: TO_NUMBER,
    from: WHATSAPP_NUMBER,
    locale: 'en',
  }),
)
  .then(resp => console.log(resp.messageUUID))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

Let me know if that helps. If you run into issues I can take a look over and help figure out what the issue could be

[JaimeCasillasBluu]

I'm trying to use this for a whatsapp agent that is running in AI, studio.
I can't get the private key because that will make the bot crash.
I'm getting a 401 error. How do i authenticate in this case?, Like the previous code i had show you?
Can you show me how please?

[manchuck]

@JaimeCasillasBluu I ran into a similar issue with AI studio. I wanted to be able to send WhatsApp messages from my telephony agent. What I wound up doing was create a new application in my dashboard. I then used the wehook node to call my own express server to send me a WhatsApp message. You can see an example of this here https://github.com/Vonage-Community/blog-vonage-ai-robocall-honeypot/blob/main/src/server.js#L59-L101

I call /add from AI studio, send the message, then listen for the response I setup in the application.