Receive messages

When a new message is created in the API channel, you will get a POST request to the Callback URL specified while creating the API channel. The payload would look like this. Find the full list of events supported by the webhook here.

Event type: message_created

{
  "id": 0,
  "content": "This is a incoming message from API Channel",
  "created_at": "2020-08-30T15:43:04.000Z",
  "message_type": "incoming",
  "content_type": null,
  "content_attributes": {},
  "source_id": null,
  "sender": {
    "id": 0,
    "name": "contact-name",
    "avatar": "",
    "type": "contact"
  },
  "inbox": {
    "id": 0,
    "name": "API Channel"
  },
  "conversation": {
    "additional_attributes": null,
    "channel": "Channel::Api",
    "id": 0,
    "inbox_id": 0,
    "status": "open",
    "agent_last_seen_at": 0,
    "contact_last_seen_at": 0,
    "timestamp": 0
  },
  "account": {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "API testing"
  },
  "event": "message_created"
}

Updated on: 26/03/2023