To continue with this fowarding process, open this repository and follow the readme instructions to deploy it and setup a client for it on your device, then register the url following this guide. You register the deployed forwarder's url on Whatsapp servers, it receives all the webhook requests and forwards them to your local machine using ngrok. In this situation, a webhook forwarder can be deployed to a virtual server like Heroku, and it doesn't get modified. I presume you don't want that hassle either. In this case, you might decide to use Ngrok to tunnel a live url to your local server, but another issue arises Since Ngrok generates a new url each time it is restarted, you'd have to constantly log in to facebook servers to register the newly generated url. If you're like me however, you wouldn't want to always deploy before you test, you want to run everything on local first. Once deployed, you can proceed to register the url of your deployed app using this tutorial from the platform. Now, you can write a small server with the Python Flask library to handle the webhook requests, but another problem arises if you're developing on a local server whatsapp will not be able to send requests to your localhost url, so a quick fix would be to deploy your project to an online server each time you make a change to be able to test it. This url is the webhook url, and the object whatsapp sends to your url is the webhook. The url you provide should be able to process simple get and post requests. send_template_message ( '255757xxxxxx', 'hello_world' ) Handling Incoming Messages A short note about Webhooksįor every message sent to your bot business account, whatsapp sends an object containing the message as a post request to a url which you have to provide beforehand. To send a pre-approved template message: > wa_bot.

send_message ( '2348945434343', 'This is a message with lists', reply_markup = Inline_list ( 'Show list', list_items = ]) Sending Template Messages send_message ( '2348945434343', 'This is a message with two buttons', reply_markup = Inline_keyboard ()) For lists > from python_whatsapp_bot import Inline_list, List_item # Import inline_list and List_item for interactive list > wa_bot. e.g For buttons > from from python_whatsapp_bot import Inline_keyboard # Import inline_keyboard for interactive buttons > wa_bot. send_message ( '2348945434343', 'Your message here' ) Sending Interactive Messagesįor buttons and lists, use the same send_message endpoint but with a reply_markup parameter. send_message ( 'mobile eg: 2348145xxxxx3', 'Your message here' ) Example Once initialized, you can start using some of the bot's features right away. > from python_whatsapp_bot import Whatsapp > wa_bot = Whatsapp ( number_id = '305xxxxxx', token = TOKEN ) Note that phone number id is not phone number. To initialize the app instance, you need to specify the TOKEN and phone_number_id you obtained from the steps above. This guide shows how to register an authentic phone number.

This tutorial on the platform guides you to create a permanent token. Now you have all you need to start using this library. If you followed the tutorial, you should now have a TOKEN and TEST WHATSAPP NUMBER and its phone_number_id.activeYou might have even already sent your first message on the platform using the provided curl request. Here is a tutorial on the platform on how to go about the process You get these after setting up a developer account and setting up an app. To get started using this library, you have to obtain a TOKEN and PHONE NUMBER ID from Facebook Developer Portal. To start, install with pip: pip3 install -upgrade python-whatsapp-bot A whatsapp client library for python utilizing the WhatsApp Business Cloud API.

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