Delete a message
POST/api/sessions/:sessionId/messages/delete
Delete a message
Request
Responses
- 200
- 400
- 404
- 409
- 503
Message deleted
Session not active or message not found
No such message — the id is outside the engine's lookup window (roughly the last hundred messages of the chat, or absent from the Baileys store) or the message was revoked.
The session is not connected — an engine exists for it but is not ready: disconnected, reconnecting, or still initializing, so the request never reached WhatsApp. Wait for ready and retry. A session that was never started answers 400 instead, and the session lifecycle routes answer 409 for a conflicting state rather than this. One window answers this while the session still reads ready: WhatsApp Web periodically reloads its own page and the engine re-injects into it — for those few seconds the answer is a 409 naming the reload; retry shortly.
WhatsApp did not answer within the request budget. The change may or may not have been applied — the gateway stopped waiting for a confirmation that never came.