Newsletter
Leave newsletter
Cancels the account’s subscription to a newsletter
DELETE
Leave newsletter
Auth:
Envelope:
TokenAccount or TokenInstance • Rate-limit: Global (100/min) • Idempotent: partial (leaving a newsletter you don’t follow may return not found)
Description
Cancels the subscription (unfollow). Future messages stop arriving and the newsletter disappears fromGET /list. The identifier is passed as a query string (not in the body), since this is a DELETE.
Examples
By JID
Cancels the subscription by passing the canonical newsletter JID through the query string. Future messages stop arriving and the newsletter disappears fromGET /list.
By link
Cancels the subscription by passing the full invite link. The server extracts the code, resolves the JID and runs the unfollow.By code
Cancels the subscription by passing only the invite code. Same as the link, without the domain prefix.Success response
The response returns the canonical newsletter JID inchannelJid (resolved from the identifier passed in the query, even if it was a link or code). After this return, the newsletter is removed from /list and future messages stop arriving.
200 OK
Path parameters
Instance name.
Headers
TokenAccount or TokenInstance.Query
@newsletter JID, full link or invite code.Notes
- If you are the owner / admin of the newsletter,
leaveonly unsubscribes you, the newsletter keeps existing. To delete the newsletter, use the official WhatsApp interface. DELETEwithout a body is the convention; a JSON body is ignored.- There is no dedicated “unfollowed” event on the webhook; newsletter messages simply stop arriving.
Errors
| HTTP | Message |
|---|---|
| 400 | The 'identifier' query parameter is required (JID @newsletter or invite link/code) |
| 400 | Invalid newsletter identifier (use JID @newsletter or invite link/code) |
| 500 | failed to leave newsletter: <reason> |
| 501 | WhatsApp client does not support UnfollowNewsletter |
Next
List newsletters
Confirm that the newsletter was removed.
Join again
Subscribe to another newsletter.