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Channel | WhatsApp Business

With more than 2 billion people using WhatsApp around the world to send 60 billion messages every day, the chat app has revolutionized the way we communicate. With an enterprise-grade API, companies can now send notifications and provide customer service through WhatsApp in a secure, reliable, and customer-friendly way.

Video

Learn the specifics of how to send messages with a video on WhatsApp.

Send messages with a video to your customers. You can also send messages in the form of a video and captions together. Video captions can be up to 4096 characters long.

The following video types are supported:

  • MP4
  • 3GPP

Only H.264 video codec and AAC audio codec are supported. Only videos with a single audio stream are supported. 

Video sizes can be up to 16MB.

ℹ️ Do you want to send a video as a media message template? Check how to integrate video in your media message template here.

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How to send a video

<div class="geshifilter"><pre class="php geshifilter-php">curl –XPOST https<span class="sy0">:</span><span class="co1">//api.tyntec.com/conversations/v3/messages\</span>
  <span class="sy0">-</span>H <span class="st_h">'Content-Type: application/json'</span> \
  <span class="sy0">-</span>H <span class="st_h">'apikey: <API KEY>'</span> \
  <span class="sy0">-</span>d <span class="st_h">'{
{
    "from" : "{{whatsAppBusinessNumber}}",
    "to" : "{{receiverPhoneNumber}}",
    "channel" : "whatsapp",
    "content" : {
        "contentType" : "video",
        "video" : {
            "url": "http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4",
            "caption" : "An optional caption"
        }
    }
}</span></pre></div>