Send WhatsApp images and Documents using Base64

We can send images, documents, and media by converting the files to base64.

 convert File to Base64 using ultramsg UI

you can convert any File using File to Base64 Tools from the Ultramsg menu after logging in to your account in Ultramsg.

step 1 : convert image to Base64 :

step 2 : Send WhatsApp images as Base64 :

We can simply put Base64 instead of the HTTP link As shown in the following image :

Example to send WhatsApp images as base64 using PHP

$instance='instance1150';
$token='Token_123456';
$to='14155552671';
/////////// 
$path="1.jpg";
$data = file_get_contents($path);
// you can convert File to Base64  using ultramsg UI
// https://user.ultramsg.com/app/base64/base64.php 

//Encodes data base64
$img_base64 =  base64_encode($data);  
//urlencode — URL-encodes string  
$img_base64 =urlencode($img_base64 );
////////////
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.ultramsg.com/$instance/messages/image",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST =>0,
  CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER =>0,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "token=$token&to=$to&image=$img_base64&caption=image Caption",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

Example to send WhatsApp pdf document as base64 using PHP

$instance='instance1150';
$token='Token_123456';
$to='14155552671';
/////////// 
$path="ultramsg.pdf";
$data = file_get_contents($path);
// you can convert File to Base64  using ultramsg UI
// https://user.ultramsg.com/app/base64/base64.php 

//Encodes data base64
$img_base64 =  base64_encode($data);  
//urlencode — URL-encodes string  
$img_base64 =urlencode($img_base64 );
////////////
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.ultramsg.com/$instance/messages/document",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST =>0,
  CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER =>0,
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "token=$token&to=$to&document=$img_base64&filename=ultramsg.pdf",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

 

Example to send WhatsApp Audio as Base64 using Java

package com.mycompany.mavenproject1;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.Base64;
import okhttp3.MediaType;
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.RequestBody;
import okhttp3.Response;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

/**
 *
 * @author Ultramsg team
 */
public class newJavaFile {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     * @throws java.io.IOException
     */
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
  //////////////////////////////////////
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
byte[] fileContent = FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(new File("/Users/demo/1.mp3"));
String sound = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(fileContent);
sound=URLEncoder.encode(sound, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.toString());
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "token=123456789&to=14155552671&audio=" + sound);
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api.ultramsg.com/instance1150/messages/audio")
  .post(body)
  .addHeader("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
  .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

//////////////////////////////////////
     System.out.println("===================");
     System.out.println(response.body().string());
    }
}

Example to send WhatsApp pdf document as Base64 using Java

package com.mycompany.mavenproject1;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.Base64;
import okhttp3.MediaType;
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.RequestBody;
import okhttp3.Response;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;

/**
 *
 * @author Ultramsg team
 */
public class newJavaFile {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     * @throws java.io.IOException
     */
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
  //////////////////////////////////////
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
byte[] fileContent = FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(new File("/Users/demo/ultramsg.pdf"));
String pdf = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(fileContent);
pdf=URLEncoder.encode(pdf, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.toString());
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "token=123456789&to=14155552671&document=" + pdf+"&filename=ultramsg.pdf");
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api.ultramsg.com/instance1150/messages/document")
  .post(body)
  .addHeader("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
  .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

//////////////////////////////////////
     System.out.println("===================");
     System.out.println(response.body().string());
    }
}

Example to send WhatsApp image as Base64 using c#

using System;
using RestSharp;
using System.IO;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
    byte[] AsBytes = File.ReadAllBytes("1.jpg");
    String AsBase64String = Convert.ToBase64String(AsBytes);
        ///////////
        var client =
            new RestClient("https://api.ultramsg.com/instance1150/messages/image");
        var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
        request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
        request.AddParameter("token","123456789",ParameterType.GetOrPost);
        request.AddParameter("to","14155552671",ParameterType.GetOrPost);
        request.AddParameter("image",AsBase64String,ParameterType.GetOrPost);
        request.AddParameter("caption","Hello",ParameterType.GetOrPost);

       
        IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

        ///////////
        Console.WriteLine(response.Content);
    }
}

Example to send WhatsApp video as Base64 using c#

using System;
using RestSharp;
using System.IO;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
    byte[] AsBytes = File.ReadAllBytes("1.mp4");
    String AsBase64String = Convert.ToBase64String(AsBytes);
        ///////////
        var client =
            new RestClient("https://api.ultramsg.com/instance1150/messages/video");
        var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
        request.AddHeader("content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
        request.AddParameter("token","123456789",ParameterType.GetOrPost);
        request.AddParameter("to","14155552671",ParameterType.GetOrPost);
        request.AddParameter("video",AsBase64String,ParameterType.GetOrPost);
        request.AddParameter("caption","Hello",ParameterType.GetOrPost);

       
        IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

        ///////////
        Console.WriteLine(response.Content);
    }
}

Example to send WhatsApp pdf document as Base64 using vb.net

Imports System 
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Text
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Web

Module base64  
    Sub Main()  
        ''''' send documenct as base64
        Dim WebRequest As HttpWebRequest
        Dim bytes As Byte() = IO.File.ReadAllBytes("ultramsg.pdf")
        Dim file As String = Convert.ToBase64String(bytes)
        WebRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create("https://api.ultramsg.com/instance1150/messages/document")
        Dim postdata As String = "token=123456789&to=14155552671" & "&document=" & HttpUtility.UrlEncode(file) & "&filename=test.pdf"
        Dim enc As UTF8Encoding = New System.Text.UTF8Encoding()
        Dim postdatabytes As Byte()  = enc.GetBytes(postdata)
        WebRequest.Method = "POST"
        WebRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        WebRequest.GetRequestStream().Write(postdatabytes)
       
       ' print return 
        Dim ret As New System.IO.StreamReader(WebRequest.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())
        console.writeline(ret.ReadToEnd())
        

  
    End Sub  
  
End Module  

Example to send WhatsApp image as Base64 using vb.net

Imports System 
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Text
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Web

Module base64  
    Sub Main()  
      ''''' send image as base64
        Dim WebRequest As HttpWebRequest
        Dim bytes As Byte() = IO.File.ReadAllBytes("test.jpeg")
        Dim file As String = Convert.ToBase64String(bytes)

        WebRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create("https://api.ultramsg.com/instance1150/messages/image")
        Dim postdata As String = "token=123456789&to=14155552671" & "&image=" & HttpUtility.UrlEncode(file) & "&caption=Hi"
        Dim enc As UTF8Encoding = New System.Text.UTF8Encoding()
        Dim postdatabytes As Byte()  = enc.GetBytes(postdata)
        WebRequest.Method = "POST"
        WebRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        WebRequest.GetRequestStream().Write(postdatabytes)
        Dim ret As New System.IO.StreamReader(WebRequest.GetResponse().GetResponseStream())
        console.writeline(ret.ReadToEnd())
        
  
    End Sub  
  
End Module  

Example to send WhatsApp image as Base64 using python 3

import http.client
import base64
import urllib.parse
import ssl
ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.ultramsg.com")

with open("1.jpeg", "rb") as image_file:
    encoded_string = base64.b64encode(image_file.read())

img_bas64=urllib.parse.quote_plus(encoded_string)
payload = "token=token&to=mobile&image="+ img_bas64 + "&caption=image Caption"
headers = { 'content-type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" }
conn.request("POST", "/instance_id/messages/image", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))

Example to send WhatsApp pdf document as Base64 using Python

import http.client
import base64
import urllib.parse
import ssl
ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.ultramsg.com")
with open("test.pdf", "rb") as image_file:
    encoded_string = base64.b64encode(image_file.read())

img_bas64=urllib.parse.quote_plus(encoded_string)
payload = "token=token&to=mobile&document="+ img_bas64 + "&filename=test.pdf"
headers = { 'content-type': "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" }
conn.request("POST", "/instance_id/messages/document", payload, headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))

Example to send WhatsApp image as Base64 using Ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'
require 'base64'
require 'cgi'

url = URI("https://api.ultramsg.com/instance_id/messages/image")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["content-type"] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
img=Base64.strict_encode64(File.open("a.png", "rb").read)
img=CGI.escape(img)

request.body = "token=instance_token&to=14155552671&image="+ img + "&caption=image Caption"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

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