Set WhatsApp Status

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Agent Skill

Automate this endpoint with an AI agent using the 2chat-whatsapp skill:

npx skills add 2ChatCo/agent-skills -s 2chat-whatsapp

This endpoint will let you set a status on your WhatsApp account, like the "away" or "only calls" texts.

These values will remain assigned until you change them.

Parameters

These parameters should be sent as JSON payload in the request body.

Field	Description	Example values
status	The value of the status	My cool new status

Invocation

Make a POST request to https://api.p.2chat.io/open/whatsapp/set-status/<number> where <number> is the phone number that you have connected to 2Chat.

cURL

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.p.2chat.io/open/whatsapp/set-status/+595981048478' \
--header 'X-User-API-Key: your_api_key_here' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "status": "My cool new status"
}'

Python

import requests
import json

url = "https://api.p.2chat.io/open/whatsapp/set-status/+595981048478"

payload = json.dumps({
  "status": "My cool new status"
})
headers = {
  'X-User-API-Key': 'your_api_key_here',
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

print(response.text)

JavaScript

var axios = require('axios');
var data = JSON.stringify({
  "status": "My cool new status"
});

var config = {
  method: 'post',
  url: 'https://api.p.2chat.io/open/whatsapp/set-status/+595981048478',
  headers: { 
    'X-User-API-Key': 'your_api_key_here', 
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  data : data
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.p.2chat.io/open/whatsapp/set-status/+595981048478',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>'{
    "status": "yeah!"
}',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'X-User-API-Key: your_api_key_here'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

Response

The API will return whether it succeded or not to queue the request for processing

{
    "success": true,
    "batched": true
}