Create WhatsApp Message Template (pass-through)

POST

https://api.chakrahq.com/v1/ext/plugin/whatsapp/api/{whatsappApiVersion}/{wabaId}/message_templates

Create a WhatsApp message template. This is a pass through API, so the request body format and response format matches that of WhatsApp apis. Detailed documentation for this can be found here

Request

Authorization

Provide your bearer token in the

Authorization

header when making requests to protected resources.

Example:

Authorization: Bearer ********************

Path Params

Body Params application/json

Example

{
  "category": "MARKETING",
  "language": "en",
  "name": "demo_template",
  "components": [
    {
      "text": "Hi, We are pleased to inform that you can now create message templates thorugh ChakraHQ.",
      "type": "BODY"
    }
  ]
}

Request Code Samples

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

PHP

Python

HTTP

Objective-C

Ruby

OCaml

Dart

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.chakrahq.com/v1/ext/plugin/whatsapp/api/83784929738012/v19.0/message_templates' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
  "category": "MARKETING",
  "language": "en",
  "name": "demo_template",
  "components": [
    {
      "text": "Hi, We are pleased to inform that you can now create message templates thorugh ChakraHQ.",
      "type": "BODY"
    }
  ]
}'

Responses

🟢200Success

application/json

Body

Example

{
    "id": "1944343716098895",
    "status": "PENDING",
    "category": "MARKETING"
}

🟠400Invalid input

Modified at 2025-06-03 10:24:36

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