aid: catnip
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/catnip.png
name: Catnip
description: >-
  Catnip Inc is the company behind Chatfuel, an AI-powered business messaging and
  chatbot automation platform for Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
  Chatfuel lets businesses build conversational flows, run broadcasts, qualify
  leads, book appointments, and automate customer support with AI agents. For
  developers Chatfuel exposes three public integration surfaces: a Broadcasting
  API for programmatically sending messages and triggering flows to bot users, a
  Dashboard API for managing bots and Facebook page bindings, and a JSON API
  plugin that lets a bot call an external backend and render dynamic content.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/catnip/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Chatbots
- Messaging
- Conversational AI
- Marketing Automation
- Facebook Messenger
- Instagram
- WhatsApp
- Customer Engagement
apis:
- name: Chatfuel Broadcasting API
  description: >-
    Programmatically send messages and trigger flows/blocks to a specific bot user
    on Messenger, Instagram, or WhatsApp. POST to the send endpoint with the bot's
    unique chatfuel_token and a flow name, block name, or block id; supports message
    tags for messaging outside the 24-hour window and setting user attributes.
    Rate limited to 25 requests per second per bot.
  humanURL: https://docs.chatfuel.com/en/articles/790461-broadcasting-api
  baseURL: https://api.chatfuel.com
  tags:
  - Messaging
  - Broadcast
  - Chatbots
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/catnip-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/catnip-rate-limits.yml
- name: Chatfuel Dashboard API
  description: >-
    Manage Chatfuel bots and their Facebook page bindings. Create empty bots, clone
    content between bots, generate role-scoped invite links (ADMIN, EDITOR, MARKETER,
    OPERATOR, VIEWER), and bind/unbind bots to Facebook pages. Authenticated with a
    Bearer Dashboard API Token generated from the account profile. Documented as
    primarily for internal use and subject to change.
  humanURL: https://docs.chatfuel.com/en/articles/2706667-dashboard-api
  baseURL: https://dashboard.chatfuel.com/api
  tags:
  - Bot Management
  - Administration
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/catnip-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://chatfuel.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.chatfuel.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.chatfuel.com/en/collections/168839-api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.chatfuel.com/en/collections/168839-api
- type: Pricing
  url: https://chatfuel.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://panel.chatfuel.com/sign-in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://chatfuel.com/files/TermsOfUse.pdf
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://chatfuel.com/privacy-policy.html
- type: Compliance
  url: https://chatfuel.com/gdpr
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/catnip-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/catnip-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/catnip-rate-limits.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/catnip-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/catnip-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence