Send announcement

How to send a message (announcement) to the community via API

To send a message (to post announcement) to a Community, you need to find out the exact ID of the group attached to that community.

Read more about it here: Important aspects of the API Community

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Markers that you can use to automatically determine which group you need to use

1. Find a group that has your community ID in parameter "linkedParent";

2. Find a group that has the parameter “announcements”: true;

3. Find groups with the same name as your community, excluding the community ID you received in the response;

4. Send the announcement from your phone and see the chat_id in the webhook you receive.

Sending an announcement to a community is completely identical and follows the rules for sending a message to a group. To send this message, use this endpoint:

POST https://gate.whapi.cloud/messages/text

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This endpoint will allow you to send messages through the API

curl --request POST \
     --url https://gate.whapi.cloud/messages/text \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'authorization: Bearer {your_token}' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '
{
  "to": "[e-mail]",
  "body": "My first announcement"
}
'

We wrote more about how to post to a group here: Send Group message