Conversations

Conversations are an essential part of CityPay — they are the containers for the messages between you, your contacts, and groups. On this page, we’ll dive into the different conversation endpoints you can use to manage conversations programmatically. We'll look at how to query, create, update, and delete conversations.

The conversation model

The conversation model contains all the information about the conversations between you and your contacts. In addition, conversations can also be group-based with more than one contact, they can have a pinned message, and they can be muted.

Properties

    Attributes

GET/v1/conversations

List all conversations

This endpoint allows you to retrieve a paginated list of all your conversations. By default, a maximum of ten conversations are shown per page.

Optional attributes

    Attributes

Request

GET
/v1/conversations
curl -G https://api.protocol.chat/v1/conversations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {token}" \
  -d limit=10

Response

{
  "has_more": false,
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "xgQQXg3hrtjh7AvZ",
      "contact_id": "WAz8eIbvDR60rouK",
      "group_id": null,
      "pinned_message_id": null,
      "is_pinned": false,
      "is_muted": false,
      "last_active_at": 705103200,
      "last_opened_at": 705103200,
      "created_at": 692233200,
      "archived_at": null
    },
    {
      "id": "hSIhXBhNe8X1d8Et"
      // ...
    }
  ]
}
POST/v1/conversations

Create a conversation

This endpoint allows you to add a new conversation between you and a contact or group. A contact or group id is required to create a conversation.

Required attributes

    Attributes

Request

POST
/v1/conversations
curl https://api.protocol.chat/v1/conversations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {token}" \
  -d 'contact_id'="WAz8eIbvDR60rouK"

Response

{
  "id": "xgQQXg3hrtjh7AvZ",
  "contact_id": "WAz8eIbvDR60rouK",
  "group_id": null,
  "pinned_message_id": null,
  "is_pinned": false,
  "is_muted": false,
  "last_active_at": null,
  "last_opened_at": null,
  "created_at": 692233200,
  "archived_at": null
}
GET/v1/conversations/:id

Retrieve a conversation

This endpoint allows you to retrieve a conversation by providing the conversation id. Refer to the list at the top of this page to see which properties are included with conversation objects.

Request

GET
/v1/conversations/xgQQXg3hrtjh7AvZ
curl https://api.protocol.chat/v1/conversations/xgQQXg3hrtjh7AvZ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {token}"

Response

{
  "id": "xgQQXg3hrtjh7AvZ",
  "contact_id": "WAz8eIbvDR60rouK",
  "group_id": null,
  "pinned_message_id": null,
  "is_pinned": false,
  "is_muted": false,
  "last_active_at": 705103200,
  "last_opened_at": 705103200,
  "created_at": 692233200,
  "archived_at": null
}
PUT/v1/conversations/:id

Update a conversation

This endpoint allows you to perform an update on a conversation. Examples of updates are pinning a message, muting or archiving the conversation, or pinning the conversation itself.

Optional attributes

    Attributes

Request

PUT
/v1/conversations/xgQQXg3hrtjh7AvZ
curl -X PUT https://api.protocol.chat/v1/conversations/xgQQXg3hrtjh7AvZ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {token}" \
  -d 'is_muted'=true

Response

{
  "id": "xgQQXg3hrtjh7AvZ",
  "contact_id": "WAz8eIbvDR60rouK",
  "group_id": null,
  "pinned_message_id": null,
  "is_pinned": false,
  "is_muted": true,
  "last_active_at": 705103200,
  "last_opened_at": 705103200,
  "created_at": 692233200,
  "archived_at": null
}
DELETE/v1/conversations/:id

Delete a conversation

This endpoint allows you to delete your conversations in Protocol. Note: This will permanently delete the conversation and all its messages — archive it instead if you want to be able to restore it later.

Request

DELETE
/v1/conversations/xgQQXg3hrtjh7AvZ
curl -X DELETE https://api.protocol.chat/v1/conversations/xgQQXg3hrtjh7AvZ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {token}"