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Opening the App

How to open Yapster

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Written by Sarah Parker
Updated over 4 years ago

If you have received an authentication token you can open the Yapster App via the following methods.


Using a “Universal Login Link”

A universal login link will either:

  1. Open the native App when opened on a mobile device where it is installed.

  2. Direct the user to a page with links to download the app or open it in a browser.

Unless you need to direct a user to a particular style of interface (for which see the following options) this is the type of URL that should be used to access Yapster.


Using our Custom URL Protocol to open the Native App

On mobile devices our custom URL protocol can be used to open the native application (when it is installed on a users device), these URLs take the following forms:

Environment

URL Template

Production

comyapsterchatyapsterprod:///<auth token>

Development

comyapsterchatyapsterdev:///<auth token>


Logging in to our Web App

To open the full Yapster Web App simply navigate to a URL of the following format:

Environment

URL Template

Production

Development


Embedding our Web App in an IFrame

If, instead of redirecting a user to our full Web App interface you would rather present Yapster embedded within your own application you can simply add an additional URL query parameter of lite=yes.

Our URLs for embedding are therefore:

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