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Someone opens the group on a phone and taps exit, which means a clean-up that touches fifty groups is fifty manual actions.","No. The official API has no group to leave.","Leaving a group is a membership operation, and Meta's Cloud API has no concept of group membership. A number on the official platform is not in any groups as far as the platform is concerned, so there is nothing to leave.",[20,29,37],{"availability":4,"ban_risk":5,"curl":21,"method":24,"operationId":25,"path":26,"summary":27,"tag":9,"url":28},{"code":22,"lang":23},"curl --request POST \\\n  --url https:\u002F\u002Fapi.wapito.com\u002Fv1\u002Fgroups\u002F120363041234567890@g.us\u002Fleave \\\n  --header 'Authorization: Bearer wpt_YOUR_TOKEN'","bash","POST","leaveGroup","\u002Fgroups\u002F{id}\u002Fleave","Leave a group","\u002Fdocs\u002Fapi\u002Fgroups\u002Fleave-group\u002F",{"availability":4,"ban_risk":5,"curl":30,"method":32,"operationId":33,"path":34,"summary":35,"tag":9,"url":36},{"code":31,"lang":23},"curl --request GET \\\n  --url 'https:\u002F\u002Fapi.wapito.com\u002Fv1\u002Fgroups?count=50&offset=0' \\\n  --header 'Authorization: Bearer wpt_YOUR_TOKEN'","GET","listGroups","\u002Fgroups","List groups","\u002Fdocs\u002Fapi\u002Fgroups\u002Flist-groups\u002F",{"availability":4,"ban_risk":5,"curl":38,"method":32,"operationId":40,"path":41,"summary":42,"tag":9,"url":43},{"code":39,"lang":23},"curl --request GET \\\n  --url https:\u002F\u002Fapi.wapito.com\u002Fv1\u002Fgroups\u002F120363041234567890@g.us \\\n  --header 'Authorization: Bearer wpt_YOUR_TOKEN'","getGroup","\u002Fgroups\u002F{id}","Get a group","\u002Fdocs\u002Fapi\u002Fgroups\u002Fget-group\u002F",[45,48,51,54],{"a":46,"q":47},"Only with a fresh invite link or by being added by an admin. There is no undo, and the group's history from before you left does not come back with you. If a bot might need to return, keep the group id and make sure a human admin can re-invite it.","Can I rejoin a group I left?",{"a":49,"q":50},"Yes. Departures appear as a system message in the group, the same as joins. If your automation leaves a customer-facing group, consider posting a short handover note first so people know where to direct follow-up questions rather than replying into a thread nobody is watching.","Do other members see that I left?",{"a":52,"q":53},"They stay in the group for everyone else, exactly as they were - leaving retracts nothing at all. If a message needs removing, delete it before you leave, and remember that WhatsApp only allows deletion for everyone within a limited window after the message was sent. After that window, and after you have left, the message is simply part of the group history.","What happens to messages I sent before leaving?",{"a":55,"q":56},"No. Leaving removes your number and the group continues for the others. Deleting a group is a separate operation with its own availability, and it only makes sense once the group is empty. For almost every automation, leaving is the operation you want.","Is deleting a group the same as leaving it?",[58,59],"Once the linked number leaves, the group disappears from its view entirely - no history, no membership, no way back in without a fresh invite - so export anything you need first.","Leaving as the creator does not transfer the superadmin role to anyone. 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No templates, no Meta approval, any number. 3 endpoints, code in Python, Node.js and PHP.","Leave a WhatsApp Group via API","Leave a WhatsApp Group via API | Wapito","leave-group","List what you are in, hand over the creator role if you hold it, leave, and archive your record when the webhook confirms it.",[153,157,160,163],{"body":154,"operationId":33,"operation_url":36,"title":155,"webhook":156},"Work from the live list rather than from your own records, so an automation cleaning up after itself does not try to leave groups it was already removed from and log a pile of harmless 404s.","Find the groups to leave",null,{"body":158,"operationId":40,"operation_url":43,"title":159,"webhook":156},"Read the roles. If the linked number is the group's creator, promote a human admin before leaving, otherwise the group is stranded with nobody able to change its settings or membership.","Hand over first if you are the creator",{"body":161,"operationId":25,"operation_url":28,"title":162,"webhook":156},"Leaving is immediate and announced to the group. The group becomes invisible to the linked number afterwards, so store anything you still need - the id, the membership, the transcript - before you call this.","Leave the group",{"body":164,"operationId":156,"operation_url":156,"title":165,"webhook":166},"The departure arrives as a participant event, which is the signal to archive your own record rather than assuming the call succeeded and moving on.","Confirm on the webhook","groups.participants","Make the linked number leave a group cleanly.","t1b",[170,173,176],{"body":171,"title":172},"A contractor's bot leaves the delivery group once the job is signed off and the transcript is filed against the ticket. The customer keeps the group if they want it; the company's number stops receiving notifications from a finished job.","Close out a job group automatically",{"body":174,"title":175},"Before a number is decommissioned, an automation promotes a human admin in every group the number created and then leaves each one in turn, so no group is left with an unreachable superadmin.","Retire a number safely",{"body":177,"title":178},"A support number is occasionally added to groups by customers. A nightly job compares the group list to the allow-list and leaves anything unexpected, after posting a short note explaining where to reach the team instead.","Drop groups that are not on the allow-list",[180,183],{"event":9,"receiver":181,"summary":182},"onGroups","Group joined, left or updated",{"event":166,"receiver":184,"summary":185},"onGroupsParticipants","Group membership or role changed",[187,189,191],{"label":65,"id":25,"lang":23,"code":22,"html":188},"\u003Cpre class=\"shiki shiki-themes github-light-default github-dark-default\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff;--shiki-dark-bg:#0d1117;color:#1f2328;--shiki-dark:#e6edf3\" tabindex=\"0\">\u003Ccode>\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#953800;--shiki-dark:#FFA657\">curl\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\"> --request\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> POST\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#CF222E;--shiki-dark:#FF7B72\"> \\\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\">  --url\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> https:\u002F\u002Fapi.wapito.com\u002Fv1\u002Fgroups\u002F120363041234567890@g.us\u002Fleave\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#CF222E;--shiki-dark:#FF7B72\"> \\\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\">  --header\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> 'Authorization: Bearer wpt_YOUR_TOKEN'\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fcode>\u003C\u002Fpre>",{"label":67,"id":33,"lang":23,"code":31,"html":190},"\u003Cpre class=\"shiki shiki-themes github-light-default github-dark-default\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff;--shiki-dark-bg:#0d1117;color:#1f2328;--shiki-dark:#e6edf3\" tabindex=\"0\">\u003Ccode>\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#953800;--shiki-dark:#FFA657\">curl\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\"> --request\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> GET\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#CF222E;--shiki-dark:#FF7B72\"> \\\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\">  --url\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> 'https:\u002F\u002Fapi.wapito.com\u002Fv1\u002Fgroups?count=50&offset=0'\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#CF222E;--shiki-dark:#FF7B72\"> \\\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\">  --header\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> 'Authorization: Bearer wpt_YOUR_TOKEN'\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fcode>\u003C\u002Fpre>",{"label":69,"id":40,"lang":23,"code":39,"html":192},"\u003Cpre class=\"shiki shiki-themes github-light-default github-dark-default\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff;--shiki-dark-bg:#0d1117;color:#1f2328;--shiki-dark:#e6edf3\" tabindex=\"0\">\u003Ccode>\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#953800;--shiki-dark:#FFA657\">curl\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\"> --request\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> GET\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#CF222E;--shiki-dark:#FF7B72\"> \\\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\">  --url\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> https:\u002F\u002Fapi.wapito.com\u002Fv1\u002Fgroups\u002F120363041234567890@g.us\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#CF222E;--shiki-dark:#FF7B72\"> \\\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\n\u003Cspan class=\"line\">\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0550AE;--shiki-dark:#79C0FF\">  --header\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"color:#0A3069;--shiki-dark:#A5D6FF\"> 'Authorization: Bearer wpt_YOUR_TOKEN'\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fcode>\u003C\u002Fpre>",1790464899071]