The WhatsApp API for groups, Channels and status

Wapito links a WhatsApp number you already own and puts the whole of it behind a REST API — including the parts Meta's official Cloud API has no endpoint for at all. Every guide below says what the call does, what the official platform does instead, and what it costs a number in ban risk.

Browse by capability

Groups
Groups are the part of WhatsApp that the official Cloud API simply does not reach. 11 feature guides, 33 REST endpoints and a webhook for every change.
11 guides · 33 endpoints
Channels
WhatsApp Channels — newsletters in the protocol's own vocabulary — are one-to-many broadcasts that nobody can reply to, which makes them the right home for…
3 guides · 13 endpoints
Contacts
Before you spend a send on a number, it helps to know whether that number is on WhatsApp at all. No templates, no Meta approval, any number.
3 guides · 7 endpoints

Start with these

Create Group
3 endpoints
Post to Channel
5 endpoints
Post Status
4 endpoints
Check Number
2 endpoints
Send Without Template
12 endpoints
Connect a Number
7 endpoints

What the official Cloud API cannot do

Groups, Channels, status posts and contact lookups have no endpoint on Meta's WhatsApp Cloud API, and free-form messages there need an approved template or an open 24-hour window. The matrix compares 20 capabilities against Meta's own documentation, with the link and the date each page was read.

See the Cloud API comparison matrix