Edit message

POST

/waInstance{{idInstance}}/editMessage/{{apiTokenInstance}}

The method edits a message in a chat.

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

Documentation EditMessage

Request

Body Params application/json

chatId

string

required

idMessage

string

required

message

string

required

Example

{
    "chatId": "79123456789@c.us",
    "idMessage": "BAE5367237E13A87",
    "message": "I use Green-API to send this message to you!"
}

Request samples

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

PHP

Python

HTTP

Objective-C

Ruby

OCaml

Dart

curl --location -g --request POST '/waInstance{{idInstance}}/editMessage/{{apiTokenInstance}}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "chatId": "79123456789@c.us",
    "idMessage": "BAE5367237E13A87",
    "message": "I use Green-API to send this message to you!"
}'

Responses

🟢200editMessage

application/json

Body

idMessage

string

required

Example

{
    "idMessage": "BAE5367237E13A87"
}

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

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