Chatfuel

aid: chatfuel
name: Chatfuel
description: 'Chatfuel is a no-code AI-powered chatbot and business-automation platform for conversational commerce across
  Meta-owned messaging channels — WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, TikTok, and an embeddable website chat widget.
  An official Meta Business Partner, Chatfuel lets teams build automated flows and Fuely AI agents that qualify leads, answer
  customer questions, take bookings, run re-engagement campaigns, and hand off to live agents. Its developer surface is deliberately
  small and has been shrinking: the single documented HTTP operation is a Contacts API on panel.chatfuel.com that imports
  up to 1,000 WhatsApp numbers into an automation with a Bearer account token. The older Broadcasting API (api.chatfuel.com)
  and Dashboard API (dashboard.chatfuel.com/api) still respond, but Chatfuel retired their documentation along with the whole
  docs.chatfuel.com help center during 2026, leaving no reference, no deprecation notice and no redirect. A live GraphQL gateway
  runs at panel.chatfuel.com/graphql with introspection disabled, and a Swagger route on the API host is walled behind Google
  SSO. Chatfuel publishes no OpenAPI, no AsyncAPI, no first-party SDK and no MCP server.'
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  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
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  label: Self-serve signup with a 7-day free trial
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  source:
  - plans/chatfuel-plans-pricing.yml
  - authentication/chatfuel-authentication.yml
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specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
image: https://chatfuel.com/favicons/apple-touch-icon.png
tags:
- Company
- Chatbots
- Conversational AI
- Messaging
- Marketing Automation
- Customer Service
- WhatsApp
- Instagram
- Facebook Messenger
- TikTok
- No-Code
- AI Agents
tags_raw:
- Company
- Chatbots
- Conversational AI
- Messaging
- Marketing Automation
- Customer Support
- WhatsApp
- Instagram
- Facebook Messenger
- TikTok
- No-Code
- AI Agents
- Customer-Support
apis:
- name: Chatfuel Contacts API
  description: The only documented Chatfuel API operation as of 2026-08-13. POST https://panel.chatfuel.com/api/contacts/{automation_id}/whatsapp/
    imports a batch of up to 1,000 WhatsApp phone numbers into an automation and assigns a shared set of contact properties
    to every number in the batch, so a CRM can sync audiences into Chatfuel and trigger a broadcast off a property change.
    Authenticated with an account API token from Settings -> API sent as Authorization Bearer; an unauthenticated call returns
    HTTP 401.
  humanURL: https://help.chatfuel.com/create-contacts-in-chatfuel-via-api-23134b06ecf8800683b6efacab24b68d
  baseURL: https://panel.chatfuel.com/api
  tags:
  - Contacts
  - WhatsApp
  - CRM Sync
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.chatfuel.com/create-contacts-in-chatfuel-via-api-23134b06ecf8800683b6efacab24b68d
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://help.chatfuel.com/create-contacts-in-chatfuel-via-api-23134b06ecf8800683b6efacab24b68d
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/chatfuel-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/chatfuel-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/chatfuel-conventions.yml
- name: Chatfuel Broadcasting API
  description: HTTP API for sending any block or flow from a bot to a user via a POST request, including targeting users by
    attribute. Historically rate limited to 25 requests per second per bot and authenticated with a per-bot chatfuel_token
    query parameter. DOCUMENTATION WITHDRAWN — the reference at docs.chatfuel.com returned HTTP 404 on every path when re-probed
    2026-08-13 and no successor article exists on help.chatfuel.com. The route itself is still live (a GET against the send
    path returns 405 Method Not Allowed rather than the host's usual JSON 404), so the surface persists without a contract.
  humanURL: https://help.chatfuel.com/
  baseURL: https://api.chatfuel.com
  tags:
  - Broadcasting
  - Messaging
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/chatfuel-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/chatfuel-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/chatfuel-lifecycle.yml
- name: Chatfuel Dashboard API
  description: HTTP API to programmatically create and modify bots and pages — create bots, clone bot content, generate role-based
    invite links, and bind/unbind bots to Facebook pages. Authenticated with a Bearer Dashboard API token and described by
    its own docs as designed primarily for internal use and subject to change without notice. DOCUMENTATION WITHDRAWN — docs.chatfuel.com/api/dashboard-api
    returned HTTP 404 on 2026-08-13 with no replacement page.
  humanURL: https://help.chatfuel.com/
  baseURL: https://dashboard.chatfuel.com/api
  tags:
  - Dashboards
  - Bot Management
  tags_raw:
  - Dashboard
  - Bot Management
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/chatfuel-authentication.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/chatfuel-lifecycle.yml
common:
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://help.chatfuel.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://help.chatfuel.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://help.chatfuel.com/create-contacts-in-chatfuel-via-api-23134b06ecf8800683b6efacab24b68d
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://help.chatfuel.com/how-to-set-up-ai:-the-definitive-guide-1b934b06ecf88097b2a3dd91314c1a6b
- type: Support
  url: https://help.chatfuel.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://chatfuel.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/chatfuel-lab
- type: Pricing
  url: https://chatfuel.com/pricing
- type: Plans
  url: plans/chatfuel-plans-pricing.yml
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.chatfuel.com/
- type: Login
  url: https://app.chatfuel.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://chatfuel.com/files/TermsOfUse.pdf
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://chatfuel.com/privacy-policy.html
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.chatfuel.com/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://chatfuel.com/gdpr
- type: Website
  url: https://chatfuel.com
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/chatfuel-authentication.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/chatfuel-rate-limits.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/chatfuel-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/chatfuel-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/chatfuel-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chatfuel-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/chatfuel-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/chatfuel-components.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/chatfuel-llms.txt
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://academy.chatfuel.com
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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