danielrosehill/WhatsApp API links to web links.md

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WhatsApp API to Web Redirect Rule

This snippet helps automatically rewrite api.whatsapp.com links into web.whatsapp.com format, to avoid system-level triggers like xdg-open and ensure links open directly in WhatsApp Web (e.g., on desktop Linux systems).

Chrome extension

URL auto redirector by David Zhang.

Ensure that regex matching is on.

Source

^https://api\.whatsapp\.com/send/\?phone=([0-9]+).*

Destination

https://web.whatsapp.com/send?phone=$1