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Overview

In this topic you will learn about all available methods for group management. As previously mentioned, for WhatsApp everything is a chat. Knowing this, a group is nothing more than a chat and basically everything you send/receive in a chat you can send/receive with groups. A group has an ID/Phone which is simply the phone number of who created it concatenated with a timestamp, something like “5511999999999-162327528”, and this is the ID/Phone you will use as the phone to send messages to your groups. To get this ID/Phone, use the get/chats method. In this topic you will also find methods for creating and managing groups.

Group ID/Phone

To better emphasize, think of the group id/phone as the number of who created it concatenated with a timestamp, something like:
5511999999999-1623275280
AttentionOn November 4, 2021, WhatsApp changed the format for creating new groups.Before: "phone": "5511999999999-1623281429"Now: "phone": "120363019502650977-group"