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WhatsApp — Start new chat

Open a chat with a contact by name, even if you have no existing conversation with them. Returns the opened chat's header name. Throws if the contact isn't found.

Input

contact required

Contact name (as saved in your contacts) to open a chat with, even with no prior conversation.

Output

opened required
contact required
chatName required

FAQ

Open a chat with a contact by name, even if you have no existing conversation with them. Returns the opened chat's header name. Throws if the contact isn't found.
Required: contact.
It returns opened, contact, chatName.
Yes. It acts as you on web.whatsapp.com: on your own Chrome it reuses your session, and on a Reduck-hosted browser it loads the web.whatsapp.com cookies saved by the Reduck extension.
It makes changes on web.whatsapp.com, like sending, posting or booking something.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/web.whatsapp.com/start_new_chat, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/web.whatsapp.com/start_new_chat
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