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Z-API connector for Okou

Connect Z-API to inspect WhatsApp instances, contacts, chats, groups, queues, and send approved messages.

Communication · Instance credentials (Recommended)

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Use Z-API in Okou

Z-API WhatsApp REST API for instance status, chats, contacts, groups, queues, and approved outbound messages.

Once connected, supported Z-API actions can become steps in a reusable workflow alongside the other services your team uses. Run the workflow once, on a schedule, or when an event starts it.

What you can do with Z-API

  • Read the current Z-API instance connection status.
  • List chats for the connected WhatsApp instance.
  • List contacts for the connected WhatsApp instance.
  • List groups for the connected WhatsApp instance.
  • Send an explicitly approved WhatsApp message or supported media/message variant.
  • Read messages waiting in the provider queue using cursor pagination.
  • Read the connected WhatsApp device metadata.
  • Read one chat metadata record; this may include conversation data.

How the Z-API connector works

A connected service becomes one permissioned step in the work you hand off.

  1. 1

    Connect Z-API

    Choose Instance credentials (Recommended).

  2. 2

    Choose the work

    Use only the supported actions your workflow needs.

  3. 3

    Run it your way

    Start it once, schedule it, or attach an event trigger.

Connect Z-API securely

Use the connection method that fits your account and grant only the access the workflow needs.

  • Instance credentials (Recommended)

Connector access is controlled per service and per action, so a workflow does not need broader access than the work you ask it to do.

What Z-API covers

The topics this connector's published operations touch.

  • whatsapp
  • messaging
  • rest api
  • contacts
  • chats
  • groups

Z-API connector questions

What can Okou do with Z-API?
Connect Z-API to inspect WhatsApp instances, contacts, chats, groups, queues, and send approved messages. Documented actions include: Read the current Z-API instance connection status. List chats for the connected WhatsApp instance.
How do I connect Z-API to Okou?
Connect Z-API using Instance credentials (Recommended). The connection controls which supported actions a workflow can use.
Can Z-API run in an automated workflow?
Yes. After it is connected, supported Z-API actions can run in reusable Okou workflows on demand, on a schedule, or from an event trigger.

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