Delete message

POST

/waInstance{{idInstance}}/deleteMessage/{{apiTokenInstance}}

The method deletes a message from a chat.

To display deleted messages in the journal, you need to enable the webhook "deletedMessageWebhook": "yes" with method setSettings.

Documentation DeleteMessage

Request

Body Params application/json

chatId

string

required

idMessage

string

required

onlySenderDelete

boolean

required

Example

{
    "chatId": "120363043968066561@g.us",
    "idMessage": "BAE5F4886F6F2D05",
    "onlySenderDelete": false
}

Request samples

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

PHP

Python

HTTP

Objective-C

Ruby

OCaml

Dart

curl --location -g --request POST '/waInstance{{idInstance}}/deleteMessage/{{apiTokenInstance}}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "chatId": "120363043968066561@g.us",
    "idMessage": "BAE5F4886F6F2D05",
    "onlySenderDelete": false
}'

Responses

🟢200deleteMessage

application/json

Body

object {0}

Example

//The response body is empty. If successful, the server response is 200.

Modified at 2025-06-05 06:21:33

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