WAHA 2024.12

🎉🎉🎉 First of all, Happy New Year! We wish you all the best in the New 2025 Year! 🎉🎉🎉

We are thrilled to announce the release of WAHA 2024.12!

Chat Overview API #

We’ve added 💬 Chats Overview API to help you build your custom UI clients!

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Get chats “overview” - the API that almost all Chat UI client needs!

GET /api/{session}/chats/overview?limit=20&offset=0

Response contains the main info you need to show in the chat list:

1. id - chat id
2. name - chat name (if any)
3. picture - chat picture (if any)
4. lastMessage - last message in the chat (if any).
5. _chat - the structure depends on engine you’re using

Join Groups API #

Now you can 👥 Join Group by link and get 👥 Group Info before joining!

If you have invite URL for a group (like https://chat.whatsapp.com/invitecode), you can

POST /api/{session}/groups/join

Body

{
  "code": "invitecode"
}

or using full link:

{
  "code": "https://chat.whatsapp.com/invitecode"
}

Response:

{
  "id": "123123123@g.us"
}

Profile Picture API improvements #

We’ve added optimizations in 💬 Get Chat Picture and 👤 Get Contact Profile Picture API!

Before it could give rate-overlimit error, now it’s optimized and faster!

And More! #

Check out the full WAHA 2024.12 🆕 Changelog for more details!