WhatsApp API guides

Short, working guides for the parts of the API developers ask about most. Each one has the request shapes and the failure cases.

Send and receive

• Send WhatsApp media messages
• Receive WhatsApp images, video, voice notes and files
• Download inbound WhatsApp media
• WhatsApp API: quote, mention, polls and contact cards
• WhatsApp API: reactions, read receipts, edits, deletes

Groups

• List WhatsApp groups for a source picker
• Create and manage WhatsApp groups over the API

Reliability

• How to prevent duplicate WhatsApp messages
• How to build a reliable WhatsApp message queue
• WhatsApp sent vs delivered vs read
• Correlate a WhatsApp reply with an earlier alert

Connection and setup

• Link WhatsApp with a pairing code instead of a QR
• How to reconnect a dropped Linked Devices session

Webhooks and security

• How to verify a WhatsApp webhook signature

No-code workflows

• Save WhatsApp media to Drive or Dropbox with Activepieces
• Save WhatsApp media to Drive or Dropbox with Zapier

Build complete workflows in the tutorials →