What is a WhatsApp Community?
Definition
A Community is a container that groups several WhatsApp groups together under one name, with an announcement group that reaches every member at once. Members join the community's groups individually, and admins can link or unlink groups without disturbing the conversations inside them.
In more depth
Communities were built for organisations that had outgrown a single group: a school with a group per class, a congregation with a group per activity, a volunteer network with a group per region. The announcement group is the part that makes the structure useful, because it lets an admin reach everyone in every linked group with one message while ordinary members cannot post there. Membership is still per group, so someone can belong to two of a community's groups and not the rest, and leaving one group does not remove them from the community. From an automation point of view a community is mostly a read-and-shape problem: you list the communities the linked number belongs to, read which groups are linked, and attach or detach groups so the structure in WhatsApp matches the structure in your own system. Community support depends on the engine underneath and is being rolled out after the group endpoints, so check the availability badge on the reference page before you build a flow that assumes it.
In the Wapito API
On the wire it is the field community_id:
{
"community_id": "120363200000000000@g.us",
"groups": 12,
"announcement_group": "120363200000000001@g.us"
}On the official Cloud API
The Cloud API reference documents no community endpoints. Communities, like groups, are not part of the official messaging surface.
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