GetChatHistory#

The method returns the chat message history.

To obtain the full chat message history:

Receive messages sent from the phone by enabling the Receive webhooks on messages sent from phone setting using the SetSettings method or through the personal account. Messages sent via the API are automatically recorded in the log.

Receive incoming messages by enabling the Receive webhooks on incoming messages and files setting using the SetSettings method or through the personal account.

Messages sent and received before enabling these settings will not be included in the log.

It may take up to 5 minutes for the settings to take effect.

The appearance of messages in the log may take up to 2 minutes. Log methods should only be used for retrieving chat history. For quicker message retrieval, use the notification system.

To receive incoming messages from the phone's history, you need to enable the instance setting Receive webhooks on incoming messages and files using the SetSettings method or through the personal account and scan the QR code; the history will then appear in the logs.

The GetChatHistory method only returns the history that WhatsApp provides to the system.

Request#

To get chat history, you have to execute a request at:

POST {{apiUrl}}/waInstance{{idInstance}}/getChatHistory/{{apiTokenInstance}}

For idInstance, apiTokenInstance and apiUrl request parameters, please refer to Before you start section.

Request parameters#

Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
`chatId`	string	Yes	Personal or chat Id the message history of which you need to get
`count`	integer	No	The number of messages to get. The default is `100`

Request body example#

10 last messages request:

{
    "chatId": "11001234567@c.us",
    "count": 10
}

Response#

The response contains a list of all received and sent messages in the chat. Message time stamp descending-order sort.

Response parameters#

Array of objects with parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description
`type`	string	Message type: `outgoing` - outgoing message; `incoming` - incoming message
`idMessage`	string	Incoming message Id
`timestamp`	integer	Message acceptance time in UNIX format
`statusMessage`	string	Outgoing message status. Present only for `type` = `outgoing`. Possible variants:
		`pending` - is sent
		`sent` - sent
		`delivered` - delivered
		`read` - read/seen/heard
`sendByApi`	boolean	Is the message sent through API. Present only for `type` = `outgoing`
`typeMessage`	string	Message type, possible variants:
		`textMessage` - text message
		`templateMessage` - template message. Present only for `type` = `outgoing`
		`templateButtonsReplyMessage` - template buttons reply message. Present only for `type` = `incoming`
`chatId`	string	Chat Id, where the message has been received
`senderId`	string	Message sender Id. Present only for `type` = `incoming`
`senderName`	string	Message sender name. Present only for `type` = `incoming`
`senderContactName`	string	Obsolete
`textMessage`	string	Text message, if `typeMessage`=`textMessage`

Response body example#

[
    {
        "type": "incoming",
        "idMessage": "9DB14F14A253D33F4A9CD84123456789",
        "timestamp": 1706522263,
        "typeMessage": "textMessage",
        "chatId": "120363153000000000@с.us",
        "textMessage": "Hi",
        "senderId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "senderName": "Rachel",
        "senderContactName": ""
    },
    {
        "type": "outgoing",
        "idMessage": "BAE5143000000000",
        "timestamp": 1706761225,
        "typeMessage": "textMessage",
        "chatId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "textMessage": "Hi",
        "statusMessage": "read",
        "sendByApi": true
    },
    {
        "type": "outgoing",
        "idMessage": "3A1EBA0F23004BD415BB",
        "timestamp": 1706601621,
        "typeMessage": "reactionMessage",
        "chatId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "extendedTextMessageData": {
            "text": "😄"
        },
        "quotedMessage": {
            "stanzaId": "B4D7D8A1A7D887D5580F000000000000",
            "participant": "70000000012@c.us",
        },
        "statusMessage": "read",
        "sendByApi": false
    },
    {
        "type": "outgoing",
        "idMessage": "BAE5870000000000",
        "timestamp": 1706761414,
        "typeMessage": "locationMessage",
        "chatId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "location": {
            "nameLocation": "Cafe",
            "address": "Astana",
            "jpegThumbnail": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAASABIAAD/4QBYRX",
            "latitude": 51.1280000000000,
            "longitude": 71.4307620000000,
            "forwardingScore": 0,
            "isForwarded": false
        },
        "statusMessage": "read",
        "sendByApi": true
    },
    {
        "type": "incoming",
        "idMessage": "3AA2C1D83560000000000",
        "timestamp": 1706675513,
        "typeMessage": "contactMessage",
        "chatId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "contact": {
            "displayName": "Anastasia",
            "vcard": "BEGIN:VCARD\nVERSION:3.0\nN:;Anastasia;;;\nFN:Anastasia\nTEL;type=CELL;type=VOICE;waid=70000000013:+7 000 000-00-13\nEND:VCARD",
            "forwardingScore": 0,
            "isForwarded": false
        },
        "senderId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "senderName": "Rachel",
        "senderContactName": "Rachel 2"
    },
    {
        "type": "incoming",
        "idMessage": "3A66D7F0B50000000000",
        "timestamp": 1706675928,
        "typeMessage": "extendedTextMessage",
        "chatId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "textMessage": "Hqhqhhqh\nhttps://greenwaba.com",
        "extendedTextMessage": {
            "text": "Hqhqhhqh\nhttps://greenwaba.com",
            "description": "GreenWaba: WhatsApp API on any language PHP, JavaScript, 1C, Python, Java, C#, VBA etc.",
            "title": "GreenWaba: send and receive WhatsApp messages",
            "previewType": "None",
            "jpegThumbnail": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABZ",
            "forwardingScore": 0,
            "isForwarded": false
        },
        "senderId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "senderName": "Rachel",
        "senderContactName": "Rachel 2"
    },
    {
        "type": "outgoing",
        "idMessage": "460D84E00000000000",
        "timestamp": 1706762412,
        "typeMessage": "pollMessage",
        "chatId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "pollMessageData": {
            "name": "Choose your favorite color",
            "options": [
                {
                    "optionName": "Red"
                },
                {
                    "optionName": "Green"
                }
            ],
            "multipleAnswers": true
        },
        "statusMessage": "delivered",
        "sendByApi": true
    },
    {
        "type": "incoming",
        "idMessage": "3A0493ED90000000000000",
        "timestamp": 1706676447,
        "typeMessage": "pollUpdateMessage",
        "chatId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "pollMessageData": {
            "name": "Choose your favorite color",
            "stanzaId": "460D84E00000000000",
            "votes": [
                {
                    "optionName": "Red",
                    "optionVoters": [
                        "70000000012@c.us"
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "optionName": "Green",
                    "optionVoters": []
                }
            ],
            "multipleAnswers": true
        },
        "senderId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "senderName": "Rachel",
        "senderContactName": "Rachel 2"
    },
    {
        "type": "outgoing",
        "idMessage": "B1494991277FD000000000000000000000",
        "timestamp": 1706849516,
        "typeMessage": "quotedMessage",
        "chatId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "extendedTextMessage": {
            "text": "Black",
            "stanzaId": "460D84E00000000000",
            "participant": "70000000012@c.us"
        },
        "quotedMessage": {
            "stanzaId": "460D84E00000000000",
            "participant": "70000000012@c.us",
            "typeMessage": "pollMessage",
            "pollMessageData": {
                "name": "Choose your favorite color",
                "options": [],
                "multipleAnswers": true
            }
        },
        "statusMessage": "delivered",
        "sendByApi": false
    },
    {
        "type": "outgoing",
        "idMessage": "21D6C50B400DBCEC30000000000000",
        "timestamp": 1706852882,
        "typeMessage": "quotedMessage",
        "chatId": "70000000012@c.us",
        "extendedTextMessage": {
            "text": "Cool",
            "stanzaId": "79DC2458992097F00000000000000000",
            "participant": "70000000012@c.us"
        },
        "quotedMessage": {
            "stanzaId": "79DC2458992097F00000000000000000",
            "participant": "70000000012@c.us",
            "typeMessage": "imageMessage", //"videoMessage"/`documentMessage`/`audioMessage`/`stickerMessage`
            "downloadUrl": "",
            "caption": "",
            "fileName": "",
            "jpegThumbnail": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wCEAgq7O/wD/2Q==",
            "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
            "isAnimated": false,
            "isForwarded": false,
            "forwardingScore": 0
        },
        "statusMessage": "read",
        "sendByApi": true
    }
]

GetChatHistory errors#

For a list of errors common to all methods, refer to Common errors section

Request examples#

PythoncURLJava - SpringJava - UnirestVBA

import requests

url = "{{apiUrl}}/waInstance{{idInstance}}/getChatHistory/{{apiTokenInstance}}"

payload = "{\r\n\t\"chatId\": \"11001234567@c.us\",\r\n\t\"count\": 100\r\n}"
headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data = payload)

print(response.text.encode('utf8'))

curl --location 'https://api.{{apiUrl}}.com/waInstance{{idInstance}}/getChatHistory/{{apiTokenInstance}}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "chatId": "11001234567@c.us",
    "count": 10
}'

var restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
var requestUrl = new StringBuilder();
requestUrl
    .append({{apiUrl}})
    .append("/waInstance").append({{idInstance}})
    .append("/getChatHistory/")
    .append({{apiTokenInstance}});

var headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);

var jsonBody = "{\"chatId\": \"11001234567@c.us\",\"count\": 10}";

var requestEntity = new HttpEntity<>(jsonBody, headers);

var response = restTemplate.exchange(requestUrl.toString(), HttpMethod.POST, requestEntity, String.class);
System.out.println(response);

var requestUrl = new StringBuilder();
requestUrl
    .append({{apiUrl}})
    .append("/waInstance").append({{idInstance}})
    .append("/getChatHistory/")
    .append({{apiTokenInstance}});

var response = Unirest.post(requestUrl.toString())
    .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .body("{\"chatId\": \"11001234567@c.us\",\"count\": 10}")
    .asString();

System.out.println(response);

Sub GetChatHistory()
    Dim url As String
    Dim RequestBody As String
    Dim http As Object
    Dim response As String

    ' The idInstance and apiTokenInstance values are available in your account, double brackets must be removed
    url = "{{apiUrl}}/waInstance{{idInstance}}/getChatHistory/{{apiTokenInstance}}"

    ' chatId - personal chat identifier whose message history you want to receive, count - number of messages to receive, default value 100
    RequestBody = "{""chatId"":""71234567890@c.us"",""count"":10}"

    Set http = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")

    With http
        .Open "POST", url, False
        .setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json"
        .send RequestBody
    End With

    response = http.responseText

    Debug.Print response

    ' Outputting the answer to the desired cell
    Range("A1").Value = response

    Set http = Nothing
End Sub