Claude and WhatsApp: What It Can Do and How to Connect
Claude can read and send on your own WhatsApp number through a connector. Here is what that covers, where it stops, and which of the three setups to pick.
Daniel Roth5 min read
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You can use Claude with WhatsApp by adding the Blueticks connector to Claude and linking your own WhatsApp number. After that, Claude can search and read your chats, summarize a thread, and send a message from your number when you ask it to. Blueticks is our product, so read this as the maker's description of how it works.
There are three ways to set it up, depending on where you use Claude. The step-by-step guide is How to connect WhatsApp to Claude. This page helps you decide what you are getting into first.
What can Claude do in WhatsApp?
Claude gets WhatsApp through MCP tools. The live Blueticks MCP server lists twelve tools, and these are the ones people use with Claude:
- Read and search. Claude can list your chats, search them by name, pull a chat's message history, and fetch media and chat participants. This tool is read-only and changes nothing in WhatsApp.
- Send. Claude can send text, an image, video, audio or document, or a poll into a chat right now. The message leaves from your own number and shows in your sent messages.
- Tidy up. Claude can mark a chat read, react to a message, and archive or unarchive a chat.
- Contacts and groups. Claude can list your contacts, look up a group, create one, and rename or update it.
- Tasks. Claude can create and update tasks on your Blueticks boards, for example to turn a message into a to-do.
A good first request is read-only: ask Claude who is waiting on a reply from you, or to summarize one long thread. Nothing is sent unless you ask for it.
Which way should you connect Claude to WhatsApp?
| You use | Setup | Sign-in |
|---|---|---|
| Claude on the web or in the desktop app | Add a custom connector in Settings, then Connectors, with the URL https://api.blueticks.co/mcp | Sign in to Blueticks and approve access. No key is stored in Claude. |
| Claude Code | Add the local @blueticks/mcp server to your MCP config and restart | A Blueticks API key that starts with bt_live_ |
| Another MCP client that supports a bearer key | Use the same URL and send your key in the Authorization header | A Blueticks API key |
Menu names move as Claude updates, so match on meaning rather than exact labels. If you use Claude Code, the focused guide is Claude Code on WhatsApp.
Whichever you pick, link your WhatsApp number to Blueticks first, by scanning a QR code as you would for WhatsApp Web or with a phone-number link code. The WhatsApp connection has to be online for Claude to read or send. If no WhatsApp is linked, every request from Claude fails with a "No WhatsApp is connected" error.
What are the limits?
- It is your own number, not an official Meta product. The transport is a WhatsApp Web linked device. It is not the Meta Cloud API and not an official Meta product.
- Sends are immediate. When Claude sends a message, it goes out right away. Check the draft before you tell Claude to send.
- It works on any plan, with a cap on the free one. The free plan is limited to 5 requests per 6 hours.
Frequently asked questions
Does Claude have its own WhatsApp number?
This page covers using Claude with your own number through a connector. It does not describe any Claude number of its own.
Do I need the WhatsApp Business API?
No. The connector works on a linked device for your own number, so you do not need Meta's Business API or a Meta developer account.
Is this safe to try?
Start with a read-only request, such as a summary of one chat, and confirm in WhatsApp that nothing new was sent. The engine tool can also sign the session out of WhatsApp; linking the number again then takes a new QR scan.
Where do I start?
Follow the full walkthrough in How to connect WhatsApp to Claude. To compare options first, see the best WhatsApp MCP servers and the WhatsApp MCP primer. The short version is on the WhatsApp connector for Claude page, and developers can read about the hosted remote MCP server.
