# Chatfuel Contacts API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/catnip/chatfuel-contacts-api/  
**Provider:** Catnip — https://apis.io/providers/catnip/  
**Base URL:** https://panel.chatfuel.com/api  
**Documentation:** https://help.chatfuel.com/create-contacts-in-chatfuel-via-api-23134b06ecf8800683b6efacab24b68d

Chatfuel Contacts API is one of 3 APIs that [Catnip](https://apis.io/providers/catnip/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Contacts, WhatsApp, and Bulk Import. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes authentication docs and rate-limit docs.

Bulk-create WhatsApp contacts inside a Chatfuel automation. POST a list of up to 1,000 E.164 phone numbers plus a contact_data.properties map of custom attributes applied to every contact in the request; the automation_id in the path is read from the automation's URL in the product. Authenticated with a Bearer API token generated at Settings, API. This is the only Chatfuel API with live public documentation as of 2026-08-13. No rate-limit headers are returned.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/catnip/refs/heads/main/authentication/catnip-authentication.yml
- **RateLimits** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/catnip/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/catnip-rate-limits.yml
- **ErrorCatalog** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/catnip/refs/heads/main/errors/catnip-problem-types.yml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/catnip/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Catnip APIs (2)

- [Chatfuel Broadcasting API](https://apis.io/apis/catnip/chatfuel-broadcasting-api/)
- [Chatfuel Dashboard API](https://apis.io/apis/catnip/chatfuel-dashboard-api/)

## Tags

Contacts, WhatsApp, Bulk Import

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