API Token

General

To interact with our WhatsApp API you always need an API token. Every time you send a HTTP REST request to our WhatsApp API,
you need to add a Authorization header to your request. The value of the header is your API token as a Bearer token.
You should also always add a Accept and Content-Type header to ensure to send and receive JSON!

Header Name	Header Value
Authorization	Bearer your-api-token
Accept	application/json
Content-Type	application/json

PHP Example

$apiToken = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://waapi.app/api/v1/instances', [
    'headers' => [
        'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $apiToken,
        'Accept' => 'application/json',
        'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
    ]
]);

$responseBody = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);
$instances = $responseBody['instances']; //array of all instances of the authenticated user

foreach ($instances as $instance) {
    $id = $instance['id'];
    $ownerEmail = $instance['owner'];
    $webhookUrl = $instance['webhook_url']; //this webhook url will receive the subscribed events
    $webhookEvents = $instance['webhook_events']; //array of subscribed events
}

Create an API token

Login to your account. If you do not have an account yet, create a new account and verify your email address.
Please ensure that you have subscribed to one of our billing plans. You can also use our trial version to get familiar with
our WhatsApp API.

Navigate to User API Tokens. Here you can create new API tokens, edit the permissions of existing
API tokens or delete existing tokens.
If you create a new API token, you can choose any name for it. The name does not matter and is only for your token management.

API tokens **never** expire! You need to delete them by your own if needed.

API token permissions

API tokens can have different permissions:

Permission	Description
create	Create new instances up to your total instance limit.
delete	Completely delete existing instances. This will decrease your total instance limit.
read	Receive information of all or a single of your existing instances (e.g. read the instance id, webhook url, the instance owner or the subscribed events).
update	Update an existing instance (e.g. change the webhook url or edit the subscription to events).