Get WhatsApp Group Messages Programmatically

This endpoint will let you get WhatsApp group messages that were sent or received on your 2Chat-connected WhatsApp number. Only those messages sent/received after you made the connection to 2Chat will be returned.

Getting all messages

info

You will first need to get the UUID of the group you want to pull messages from. You can do that by using this endpoint.

Assuming WAG4ca128c6-7f86-428f-8e9f-5eb65e045189 is the UUID of the target group:

https://api.p.2chat.io/open/whatsapp/groups/messages/WAG4ca128c6-7f86-428f-8e9f-5eb65e045189.

This call will return the last or newest 50 messages you received on that group. If you would like to see older ones, you can start paginating the results:

• Page 1, from 50 to 100: https://api.p.2chat.io/open/whatsapp/groups/messages/WAG4ca128c6-7f86-428f-8e9f-5eb65e045189?page_number=1.
• Page 2, from 100 to 150: https://api.p.2chat.io/open/whatsapp/groups/messages/WAG4ca128c6-7f86-428f-8e9f-5eb65e045189?page_number=2.
• Page n: ...

Invocation

cURL

curl --location --request GET 'https://api.p.2chat.io/open/whatsapp/groups/messages/WAG4ca128c6-7f86-428f-8e9f-5eb65e045189?page_number=0' \
--header 'X-User-API-Key: your_api_key_here' \
--data-raw ''

Python

import requests

url = "https://api.p.2chat.io/open/whatsapp/groups/messages/WAG4ca128c6-7f86-428f-8e9f-5eb65e045189?page_number=0"

payload = ""
headers = {
  'X-User-API-Key': 'your_api_key_here'
}

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

print(response.text)

NodeJS

var axios = require('axios');
var data = '';

var config = {
  method: 'get',
  url: 'https://api.p.2chat.io/open/whatsapp/groups/messages/WAG4ca128c6-7f86-428f-8e9f-5eb65e045189?page_number=0',
  headers: { 
    'X-User-API-Key': 'your_api_key_here'
  },
  data : data
};

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

Response

{
    "success": true,
    "page_number": 0,
    "messages": [
        {
            "id": "MSGa9b1ea05-ab5b-4082-b36d-6dd297d861cb",
            "uuid": "MSGa9b1ea05-ab5b-4082-b36d-6dd297d861cb",
            "session_key": "WW-WPN66037eca-9ad1-4c96-9eff-526a90a48c77-111111111111111111@g.us",
            "message": {
                "text": "This is the latest message that was sent to this group",
                "media": {
                    "url": "https://2chat-user-data-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/...jpeg",
                    "type": "image",
                    "mime_type": "image/jpeg"
                }
            },
            "created_at": "2025-01-03T14:19:28",
            "_2chat_link": "https://app.2chat.io/live-chat/STEc5ca017c-6e16-4e1a-9960-c180b1f51682/WW-WPN66037eca-9ad1-4c96-9eff-526a90a48c77-111111111111111111@g.us",
            "sent_by": "user",
            "participant": {
                "phone_number": "+17131112222",
                "device": "ios",
                "pushname": "Person who sent the message"
            }
        },
        ...
    ]
}