How can I use the WhatsApp Share Button to share Images?

Question

WhatsApp provides a share button which can be implemented on a html page for iOs devices like this:

<a href="whatsapp://send?text=Text">Text</a>

Is it possible to send images with this share link somehow?

Answer 1

No this is not possible, whatsapp does not have any public API you can use.

Answer 2

No, and Facebook's recent acquisition of Whatsapp makes this possible option surely soon deprecated (it was already on test for iOS devices)