Check player availability from a WhatsApp question
Notis can use the team or match named in a WhatsApp message to retrieve available injury and suspension records from Api sports.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered in real time when your WhatsApp Business number receives an inbound message from a customer (text, media, location, or contact). Delivered via the Cloud API webhook.
Action
Get Injuries
Tool to get injured or suspended players. use when you need a list of sidelined players filtered by league, season, fixture, team, player, date, ids, or timezone.
Why this helps
Availability checks get delayed when someone has to reconstruct the team, competition, and match context before searching.
- Retrieve injury or suspension records relevant to a named team or fixture.
- Use the competition, season, date, or player details included in the message.
- Flag missing context in the run report when the query is too broad.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect WhatsApp and Api sports once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create a new automation in Automations, or tell Notis in plain language from any channel.
- 3Describe the outcome in one instruction: retrieve Api sports injuries or suspension records relevant to the team or match asked about in each incoming message.
- 4Pick the WhatsApp New Message Received trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with one real availability question that names a team or fixture.
Questions about this workflow
Will this confirm a player's current fitness?
It reports records returned by Api sports. It cannot confirm information the source data does not provide, and the report should be treated as a lookup rather than a definitive medical or team update.
Can it search by team or fixture?
Yes. The action supports filters including league, season, fixture, team, player, and date. The request needs enough context to make a useful lookup.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Whatsapp to Api sports. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Whatsapp triggers
Api sports actions
Recurring trigger
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Webhook trigger
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Message Status Updated
Triggers when a WhatsApp message status changes. IMPORTANT LIMITATION: WhatsApp Cloud API does not provide a native polling endpoint for message status. Status updates are ONLY delivered via webhooks in real-time. This trigger cannot directly poll the WhatsApp API for status updates. This trigger will return empty results as WhatsApp does not support this operation. To track message status updates, you must: 1. Set up a webhook endpoint to receive status notifications from WhatsApp 2. Store the webhook data in your own database 3. Use a different mechanism to query your stored webhook data For more information, see: - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/cloud-api/webhooks
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New Message Received
Triggered in real time when your WhatsApp Business number receives an inbound message from a customer (text, media, location, or contact). Delivered via the Cloud API webhook.
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Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Whatsapp and Api sports, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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