curl --request PUT \
  --url https://{instance}/wapi/v1/contacts/{contactId} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "Maria Souza Lima",
  "email": "[email protected]"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://{instance}/wapi/v1/contacts/{contactId}"

payload = {
    "name": "Maria Souza Lima",
    "email": "[email protected]"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.put(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'PUT',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({name: 'Maria Souza Lima', email: '[email protected]'})
};

fetch('https://{instance}/wapi/v1/contacts/{contactId}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://{instance}/wapi/v1/contacts/{contactId}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PUT",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'name' => 'Maria Souza Lima',
    'email' => '[email protected]'
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://{instance}/wapi/v1/contacts/{contactId}"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"name\": \"Maria Souza Lima\",\n  \"email\": \"[email protected]\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PUT", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.put("https://{instance}/wapi/v1/contacts/{contactId}")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"name\": \"Maria Souza Lima\",\n  \"email\": \"[email protected]\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://{instance}/wapi/v1/contacts/{contactId}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"name\": \"Maria Souza Lima\",\n  \"email\": \"[email protected]\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "requestId": "req_9b30f1",
  "contact": {
    "id": 601,
    "name": "Maria Souza Lima",
    "number": "5534992341048",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "document": null,
    "channel": "whatsapp",
    "profilePicUrl": null,
    "disableBot": false,
    "tags": [
      {
        "id": 3,
        "name": "Cliente ativo",
        "color": "#3B82F6"
      }
    ],
    "createdAt": "2026-08-10T12:00:00.000Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-09-23T09:32:00.000Z"
  }
}

{
  "error": "Número não pode ser alterado via API pública — é a chave de identidade do contato",
  "code": "ERR_NUMBER_IMMUTABLE"
}

{
  "error": "Token não fornecido",
  "code": "ERR_TOKEN_MISSING"
}

{
  "error": "Token sem permissão para esta ação",
  "code": "ERR_SCOPE_MISSING"
}

{
  "error": "ERR_NO_CONTACT_FOUND",
  "code": "ERR_NO_CONTACT_FOUND"
}

{
  "error": "Limite de requisições excedido",
  "code": "ERR_RATE_LIMITED"
}