Sending Location

🔒 WhatsApp 24-Hour Session Rule

Before sending a location, make sure the WhatsApp session with the user is active.

If the user has not messaged your business within the last 24 hours, WhatsApp requires the first message to be a template message.

After the customer replies, the 24-hour session opens and you may send location messages using this API. For sandbox testing, send your join code to the sandbox number to activate your session. Learn more

WhatsApp offers an API to send location.

POST

https://gateway.lipachat.com/api/v1/whatsapp/location

Headers

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
apiKey	Get apiKey from App portal settings tabhttps://app.lipachat.com/app/settings

Body

Name	Type	Description
messageId	string	A unique identifier for the message. This will be used to track the message status and for deduplication purposes.
from	string	Sandbox number [phone] or your own WABA phone number.
to	string	Receiver phone number. It should start with a country code.
latitude	number	Location latitude in decimal degrees. e.g 35.929673
longtitude	number	Location longtitude in degrees. e.g -78.948237
name	string	Location name
address	string	Location address

Curl

curl --location 'https://gateway.lipachat.com/api/v1/whatsapp/location' \
--header 'apiKey: YOUR_API_KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "messageId": "ee835207-a20b-49ef-b270-e29ed7da351e",
    "to": "2547XXXX",
    "from": "254110090747",
    "latitude": "35.929673",
    "longitude": "-78.948237",
    "name": "Church",
    "address": "Christ the King, off broad way"
}'

Java

// Create an instance of OkHttpClient
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
    .build();

// Define the media type for the request
MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json");

// Create the request body with the necessary JSON payload using a text block
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, """
{
    "messageId": "ee835207-a20b-49ef-b270-e29ed7da351e",
    "to": "2547XXXX",
    "from": "254110090747",
    "latitude": "35.929673",
    "longitude": "-78.948237",
    "name": "Church",
    "address": "Christ the King, off broad way"
}
""");

// Build the request with the required headers
Request request = new Request.Builder()
    .url("https://gateway.lipachat.com/api/v1/whatsapp/location")
    .method("POST", body)
    .addHeader("apiKey", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .build();

// Execute the request and get the response
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Javascript

const axios = require('axios');
let data = JSON.stringify({
    "messageId": "ee835207-a20b-49ef-b270-e29ed7da351e",
    "to": "2547XXXX",
    "from": "254110090747",
    "latitude": "35.929673",
    "longitude": "-78.948237",
    "name": "Church",
    "address": "Christ the King, off broad way"
});

let config = {
  method: 'post',
  maxBodyLength: Infinity,
  url: 'https://gateway.lipachat.com/api/v1/whatsapp/location',
  headers: { 
    'apiKey': 'YOUR_API_KEY', 
    'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  },
  data : data
};

axios.request(config)
.then((response) => {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

Response

200

{
      "timestamp": "2023-08-06T01:27:56.825898971",
      "data": {
            "messageId": "7addc006-07db-4fae-aac5-b285903b41d4",
            "waId": "wamid.HBgMMjU0NzE3NzQ2NTY1FQIAEnRgSRjJGRkMzNkQ0QUVENTIxQ0NBAA==",
            "status": "SENT",
            "statusDesc": "Message sent successfully"
      },
      "status": "success",
      "message": "",
      "errors": null
}

400

{
      "timestamp": "2023-08-06T17:50:35.701+00:00",
      "status": 400,
      "error": "Bad Request",
      "path": "/api/v1/whatsapp/location"
}

401

{
      "timestamp": "2023-08-06T20:49:48.455464058",
      "data": null,
      "status": "success",
      "message": "Invalid credentials",
      "errors": null
}