Sending Contacts Messages
Use this api to send contacts messages.
API_TOKEN Developers can authenticate their API calls with the API_TOKEN generated in App Dashboard > Phone Numbers > Detail > Api. To send a contacts message, make a POST call to /messages and attach a message object with type=contacts .
Parameters
This is the main parameter used in send contacts message requests:
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
to | Required WhatsApp ID or phone number for the person you want to send a message to. The phone numbers in this requests can be provided in any dialable format, as long as they include their country code. It's recommended that you explicitly prefix the country code with a plus sign (+). Here are some examples of supported phone number formats:
|
reply_message_id | Optional You can send any message as a reply to a previous message in a conversation by including the previous message's ID. The recipient will receive the new message along with a contextual bubble that displays the previous message's content. |
type | Required The type of message you want to send. Set this as individual contacts . |
contacts | Required A contacts object. |
contacts.*.name | Required Full name, as it normally appears. |
contacts.*.phone | Required Automatically populated with the `wa_id` value as a formatted phone number. |
Example
Sample request:
curl -X POST 'https://waofficial.botika.online/api/whatsapp/v1/messages' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{ API_TOKEN }}' \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{ "to": "+62821xxxxxx", "reply_message_id": "{{ MESSAGE_ID }}", "type": "contacts", "contacts": [ { "name": "CONTACT_NAME", "phone": "CONTACT_PHONE" }, ... ] }'
A successful response includes an object with an identifier for the message:
{
"data": {
"id": "{{ MESSAGE_ID }}"
}
}