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Contacts

Delete a contact

DELETE
/{phone_number_id}/contacts/{id}
const url = 'https://api.kirim.chat/v1/106540352242922/contacts/example';
const options = {method: 'DELETE', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
try {
const response = await fetch(url, options);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
console.error(error);
}

Hard-deletes the contact and cascades to its conversations, messages, and label attachments. Irreversible.

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}$/
Example
106540352242922
id
required
string
/^ctc_[0-9A-HJKMNP-TV-Z]{26}$/

Deleted

Media type application/json
object
data
required
object
id
required
string
object
required
string
Allowed values: contact
deleted
required
boolean
request_id
required
string
Example
{
"data": {
"object": "contact",
"deleted": true
}
}

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"
}
}

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"
}
}

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"
}
}

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"
}
}

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"
}
}

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"
}
}