Reaction

This page describes reaction messages on the WhatsApp Business Platform.

Reaction messages are emoji-reactions that you can apply to a previous WhatsApp user message that you have received.

Limitations

When sending a reaction message, only a sent message webhook (status set to sent) will be triggered; delivered and read message webhooks will not be triggered.

Reaction Message Request

POST https://waba-v2.360dialog.io/messages

Use the messages endpoint to send a reaction message to a WhatsApp user.

Headers

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	D360-API-KEY

Body Example

{
  "messaging_product": "whatsapp",
  "recipient_type": "individual",
  "to": "<WHATSAPP_USER_PHONE_NUMBER>",
  "type": "reaction",
  "reaction": {
    "message_id": "<WHATSAPP_MESSAGE_ID>",
    "emoji": "<EMOJI>"
  }
}

Response

200

{
  "contacts": [
    {
      "input": "text",
      "wa_id": "text"
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "text",
      "message_status": "accepted"
    }
  ],
  "messaging_product": "text"
}

400