In this tutorial you will learn how to send multimedia messages to phone numbers and group chats lists using the API.
A media file can be any of the following: images (JPEG, PNG, WEBP), videos (MP4, 3GPP), audios (MP3, OGG, MP4, ACC), gifs (MP4) and documents (PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOCX, DOC, ZIP, RAR, other binary types).
If you need to send messages from code, you can use any programming language that can perform HTTPS requests to the API. Below you will find the live API tester with ready-to-use code examples in a variety of programming languages.
Requirements
- Having a WhatsApp number already linked to the platform and online.
- Message recipient phone number with international prefix in E164 format. Example:
+1234567890. Validate the phone number format here.