Yapaytech - WhatsApp Business Bot Example

A simple python bot for WhatsApp Business Api

Our Website • Facebook WhatsApp Documentations

• In this example we echo the text messages back to user.
• We use ngrok to create temporary https reverse proxy so whatsapp can reach our demo api.
• Because ngrok public url changes everytime we also change webhook settings in our instance at boot. This should not be used like this in production environments.

Installation

Installing python libraries

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configure Tokens

You need to change INSTANCE_URL, API_KEY and ADMIN_API_KEY values in app.py file.

Start The Api

Tested with python v3.8.1

Mac/Linux

export FLASK_APP=app.py
flask run --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9000 --no-debugger --no-reload

Windows Cmd

set FLASK_APP=app.py
flask run --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9000 --no-debugger --no-reload

Windows PowerShell

$env:FLASK_APP = "app.py"
flask run --host 0.0.0.0 --port 9000 --no-debugger --no-reload