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Contacts

Create a contact

POST
/{phone_number_id}/contacts
 
const url = 'https://api.kirim.chat/v1/106540352242922/contacts';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"phone_number":"example","name":"example","email":"[email protected]","metadata":{"additionalProperty":"example"}}'
};


try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}

Create a contact attached to the WhatsApp account identified by phone_number_id in the URL path.

Authorizations

Section titled “Authorizations ”

Parameters

Section titled “ Parameters ”

Path Parameters

Section titled “Path Parameters ”
phone_number_id
required

Meta WhatsApp Business phone_number_id of the connected account that should send / own this resource. Discoverable via GET /v1/accounts (returned as phone_number_id on each row).

string
/^\d{6,20}$/
Example 
106540352242922

Request Body

Section titled “Request Body ”
Media type application/json
object
phone_number
required
string
name
string
>= 1 characters <= 200 characters
email
string | null format: email
<= 255 characters
metadata
object
key
additional properties
Example generated
{
  "phone_number": "example",
  "name": "example",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "metadata": {
    "additionalProperty": "example"
  }
}

Responses

Section titled “ Responses ”

200

Section titled “200 ”

Contact created

Media type application/json
object
data
required
object
id
required
string
object
required
string
Allowed values: contact
phone_number
required
string | null
name
required
string | null
email
required
string | null
metadata
required
object | null
whatsapp_account
required
object
phone_number
required
string | null
created_at
required
string format: date-time
updated_at
required
string format: date-time
request_id
required
string
Example 
{
  "data": {
    "id": "ctc_01HXYZABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWX",
    "object": "contact"
  }
}

400

Section titled “400 ”

Validation failure

Media type application/json
object
error
required
object
type
required
string
code
required
string
message
required
string
param
string
request_id
required
string
Example 
{
  "error": {
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "code": "invalid_phone_number",
    "request_id": "req_01HXYZABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWX"
  }
}

401

Section titled “401 ”

Authentication failure

Media type application/json
object
error
required
object
type
required
string
code
required
string
message
required
string
param
string
request_id
required
string
Example 
{
  "error": {
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "code": "invalid_phone_number",
    "request_id": "req_01HXYZABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWX"
  }
}

404

Section titled “404 ”

Resource not found

Media type application/json
object
error
required
object
type
required
string
code
required
string
message
required
string
param
string
request_id
required
string
Example 
{
  "error": {
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "code": "invalid_phone_number",
    "request_id": "req_01HXYZABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWX"
  }
}

422

Section titled “422 ”

Semantic failure (e.g. idempotency key reuse)

Media type application/json
object
error
required
object
type
required
string
code
required
string
message
required
string
param
string
request_id
required
string
Example 
{
  "error": {
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "code": "invalid_phone_number",
    "request_id": "req_01HXYZABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWX"
  }
}

429

Section titled “429 ”

Rate limit exceeded

Media type application/json
object
error
required
object
type
required
string
code
required
string
message
required
string
param
string
request_id
required
string
Example 
{
  "error": {
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "code": "invalid_phone_number",
    "request_id": "req_01HXYZABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWX"
  }
}

500

Section titled “500 ”

Internal server error

Media type application/json
object
error
required
object
type
required
string
code
required
string
message
required
string
param
string
request_id
required
string
Example 
{
  "error": {
    "type": "invalid_request_error",
    "code": "invalid_phone_number",
    "request_id": "req_01HXYZABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTVWX"
  }
}