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Zoho Cliq messages API

Messages Module

Zoho Cliq messages API is one of 22 APIs that Zoho Cliq publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 4 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Message. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a JSON-LD context, and 4 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 6 operations across 6 paths, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://cliq.zoho.com/api/v3.

6 operations 6 paths 7 schemas 1 DELETE1 GET4 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://cliq.zoho.com/api/v3
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Zoho Cliq messages API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (Cliq_Auth) using the implicit flow, exposing 7 scopes.

Paths & Operations 6

Across 6 paths, the API surfaces 6 operations — 1 DELETE, 1 GET, 4 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

messages 6

Messages Module

DELETE
/chats/{CHAT_ID}/messagess
Delete multiple messages
deleteMultipleMessagesV3 4 params → 200400401403404429500
POST
/channelsbyname/{CHANNEL_UNIQUE_NAME}/messages
Post message in a channel with CHANNELUNIQUENAME
postMessageInChannelByChannelUniqueName 4 params body → 200400401403404405406429
POST
/channels/{CHANNEL_ID}/messages
Post message in a channel with CHANNELID
postMessageInChannelByChannelId 4 params body → 200400401403404405406429
POST
/chats/{CHAT_ID}/messages
Post message in chat
Post message in chat 1 param body → 200400401403404405406429
POST
/messages
Forward Messages
Forward Messages body → 200400401403404405406429
GET
/messages/search
Search Messages
searchMessagesV3 22 params → 200400401403429500

Schemas 7

The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are post-message-in-chat-request (4 properties), post-message-in-a-channel-request (3 properties), search-messages-response (3 properties), forward-messages-request (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

post-message-in-a-channel-response
object
Response object after posting a message in a channel.
1 property
forward-messages-request
object
Request object to forward one or more messages from a source chat to other chats or users.
2 properties 2 required
post-message-in-a-chat-response
object
Response object for posting messages in a chat/user
1 property
forward-messages-response
object
Response object after forwarding messages. Uses a partial-success model.
1 property
search-messages-response
object
Response object for message search results containing matching messages and pagination information.
3 properties
post-message-in-chat-request
object
Request object to send a message in a chat.
4 properties 1 required
post-message-in-a-channel-request
object
Request object to post a message in a channel.
3 properties 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

zoho-cliq-messages-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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