How To Connect OpenAI To WhatsApp (Python Tutorial)

[@daveebbelaar]

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[@traggerosbourne]

Where is the link for the github repo

[@daveebbelaar]

github.com/daveebbelaar/python-whatsapp-bot

[@BoominGame]

Brilliant!!! thanks!

[@sealandland3959]

@@traggerosbourne At least say "please"...

[@sealandland3959]

@@daveebbelaar Thanks alot indeed beyond words

[@codewithkin]

You sir, have just earned yourself a new subscriber! Thank you so much for this tutorial, the documentation was a bit tricky but you killed it! Hope to see more from you in future, cheers Dave.

[@SillyZillyMe]

Really looking forward to the next video (hoping it is very soon). I would like to see how you convert this into a Production environment and setting it up to receive unverified numbers. This setup is very clean and I like that you don't have to botch together the use of other services in order to get it working like I have seen with other tutorials.

[@sealandland3959]

Have you made it run in your side?

[@aliabdou7983]

@@sealandland3959 have you ?

[@mbottambotta]

thanks Dave, really appreciate the trouble you went through to make this accessible to all of us. Great job! 🙏

[@daveebbelaar]

You're welcome!

[@abdulrehmanbaber2104]

HI Dave, Great content! happy for you

[@gabrielito4289]

Awesome, I don't have any idea either Python or programming in general, but this guy explain in such great way that I will try to do it.

[@sameergamer4567]

Make another video on how to finetune this on our own dataset.

[@eduardodelagarza3318]

If you are using VSCode you can use the "ports" feature which takes about 30 seconds. Instead of all the hasle of ngrok. Make sure you set the port to public

[@dhirajkahol]

Thank you for this excellent step-by-step tutorial, was so much required. Keep going strong 👍🙏

[@paritoshpandey5705]

Can we have a video on how we can connect whatsapp to one of our own custom chatbots that works on our own AI model rather than Chat-GPT please ?

[@uzairleo2910]

Thats Awesome But you have to must mention this thing in title of video "How i Build RULE BASE "chatbot not AI Chatbot

[@IbrahimKhan-tw5bf]

He did make an AI chatbot if you went through the end of the video

[@sandeepv2441]

Add custom function for response . And define there ur prompts

[@SillyZillyMe]

I've been trying to use this for the past couple of days. The app will randomly receive updates from Whatsapp even if I have not sent a new message. I'm glad that I was able to learn a couple of techniques but this solution seems to be pretty broken. Hoping that the next videos shows a more complete solution for creating a Whatsapp bot. Looking forward to more content :).

[@daveebbelaar]

I am working on it! You can monitor the logs to see where they are coming from. There likely needs to be another filter for the webhooks to filter only new incoming messages.

[@sealandland3959]

​@@SillyZillyMeThanks a lot indeed beyond words for your comment, please keep us updated to check if you manage to make it work on your side. I have a good level of Python myself and would love to use this for complex projects

[@abdallateefabdalla9791]

Thank you for this excellent step-by-step tutorial, was so much required. Keep going strong

[@easycodelab]

Am stuck on this error when i try to get a test message for the very first time. 400 {'error': {'message': '(#131030) Recipient phone number not in allowed list' Am certain I did everything in the documentation/video. Any solutions??

[@jeethendrabalaji8697]

You would have to override env variable, change load_dotenv() to load_dotenv(override=True)

[@hallohoi7741]

Did you find a way to solve this issue? i'm facing the same problem right now

[@anubiss264]

@@hallohoi7741 Sorry i just figured out, in the .env file, delete the coment with the # and it works, also is witouth the +, for example if i have my spanish number should be :RECIPIENT_WAID="34xxxxxxxx", i hope it works for you now

[@josealfonsx]

@@hallohoi7741 did you? I'm still stuck in this part.

[@josealfonsx]

Found the solution in another comment by @mominali8397: Try not using the .env to load the enviroment variables, instead defin them in the same file as were the code is running.

[@varelaseb]

For everyone running into 403, it's in the decorator. Or at least it was for me. If you comment out the security required and @security required on the views.py file you should be good to go. Might not be the entirety of it but hopefully it sends you all in the right direction

[@Cheikna98]

Thank you, I had the 403 ERROR (even after copying and pasting the same TOKEN). I added a # for @signature_required in app/views.py and it worked

[@NicholasBaird-l2q]

This unfortunately did not work for me. I've had a TON of verification issues on MacOS that have taken hours to work around. Not sure what I'm doing wrong & chatGPT can't figure it out either lol

[@NicholasBaird-l2q]

Solved this for me: after running ngrok I had to restart the flask app. Maybe it's the order of things... Didn't need to comment out anything from the decorators

[@b3armonk]

@@NicholasBaird-l2q Yes you are right, once I followed your order of things it worked even without commenting out anything. First I ran Ngrok, then I start a fresh activation of my virtual env, started my run.py server, and finally only I went to verify and save on the Webhook configurations page. The 403 is gone then and I managed to save it. Hope this helps someone. Thank you @user-tg4vj5ou8m

[@chrisquinn3377]

​@@b3armonkcan you provide more detail, do you have a web server? And do I need to add a .venv to the code

[@NirajUbale]

00:02 Build a free AI WhatsApp bot with Python 02:15 Setting up the initial bot for AI WhatsApp Chatbot 06:59 Create a longer-lasting token for WhatsApp API setup 09:22 Configuring connection and sending custom messages on AI WhatsApp chatbots. 14:02 Enrock tool helps bypass local host for testing purposes. 16:14 Integrating with WhatsApp involves setting up a webhook and verification token. 20:42 Understanding web hook security and its implementation 22:47 Learn how to sell and monetize by building WhatsApp AI Bots as a freelancer 26:56 Build a WhatsApp AI bot to process and respond to messages. 28:58 Configuring Flask app for WhatsApp utilities

[@isragaytanmistico]

I am really impressed the great job you made Dave. Thanks to you absolutely. You win another subscriber. I bought a course on udemy on the topic and is not really good explained as you did here. Thanks to you for share your knowledge and keep the good work. Blessings!

[@phoebebright]

FYI my eu based ngrok domain could not be verified as a webhook callback url, it was not even called. But a non eu ngrok domain worked fine.

[@jean-christopheyervant430]

Hey I have the same problem here bad gateway 502 Bad Gateway how did you create a non UE ngrok domain ? should I use some VPN or sth ?

[@jean-christopheyervant430]

Region United States (us) I found the solution in the ngrok.yml but still US not working

[@3101199]

please explain how to not use ngrok domain! :)

[@phoebebright]

@@3101199 - so you can create a new domain in ngrok that can be based in the eu, just not with eu in the domain name.

[@camelendezl]

For people experiencing the webhooks error "The callback URL or verify token couldn't be validated. Please verify the provided information or try again later.", the issue is that Meta don't consider some regions of ngrok as "safe". The solution is to try with other tunneling methods like pinggy, serveo, etc.

[@PoorviAgrawal-c8h]

I resolved this with cloudflare tunnel but I think the issue is of the access token somewhere. Also I get the error Recipient number not in the allowed list each time I change the access token and gets resolved on changing the recipient_waid variable name, do you have a solution for that?

[@ShubhamRajpurohit-c4w]

sir , my webhook is working and credintials are verified on local but on server its not working

[@ernestoflores3873]

You are the goat man! Thanks!

[@manoranjansahu1680]

Thanks Dude. Can we add that bot in my whatsapp group and the bot able to do send messages in group

[@blenderdad]

Thank you for this excellent and in depth video!

[@prakharjain2548]

Thanks for the useful video. Was able to completely follow and set things up quite quickly.

[@daveebbelaar]

Great to hear!

[@harish5706]

i got stuck on this ! any solutions ? 401 {'error': {'message': 'Invalid OAuth access token - Cannot parse access token', 'type': 'OAuthException', 'code': 190, 'fbtrace_id': '******'}} i already check my token and it is correct , what should i do ?

[@elpablitorodriguezharrera]

Can you make it connected to GPT-4 and other text-to-image like Fooocus? It'd be super nice having Midjourney killer.

[@eversonpergher2164]

Did you get GPT-4 or other AI connected?

[@diegodelafuente1739]

Thanks for share your skills with the community. Great tutorial !

[@innovAIte-0]

Ayy Yooo my boy! Thanks man this is a cool project. I successfully set it up

[@gokulraj6633]

Thank you very much . The best video on using whatsapp api . Thank you again

[@UnbelievableButTrueInfo]

Hi @dave Ebbelaar goede video. Ik vroeg me af hoe het zit met memory in de chat zelf

[@pmig81]

This is great stuff 😊 subscribed! Instead of uploading a pdf file for the gpt assistant, can I use a database?

[@andreysorokin1236]

Please make a video on how to launch functions in the assistant

[@TendaiShoko]

That is the most important part l didnt also get .

[@pratikpratik8495]

getting error while adding business portfolio "Onboarding Failure You have been temporarily blocked from performing this action."

[@silva8215]

Thanks so much for this helpful repo and video on that topic!

[@skeptomai97]

Thank you i needed a detailed tutorial like this one. Just to know, do you hace any code example or tutorial tu use OpenAI and google calendar to make apointments via agents/function calling to add to this tutorial?

[@cryptokazakh]

cool it is working nice, do you have a video or tutorial about deploying this app on server?

[@recapped242]

i have really benefited from your video. thank you so much.

[@xiangyuli504]

great video!! Where is the video about migrating to the real server? Many Thanks

[@tapelongwenya]

Just a quick one, am new to dev, how can I make the menu within the message templates to engage with a client when they send a message. E.g Main menu > Customer service > chat with an agent

[@mista_ia]

Thank you for making this accessible. So, We can't make it enter Groups? Can't do stickerize things mostly, etc. ?

[@DaBo1]

Very usefull video, thank you! i must have then open the computer in order for automation to happen if yes, how i can do then this in cloud to avoid keeping computer live 24/7 thank you!

[@jean-christopheyervant430]

Thanks BRO it's amazing CONTENT I love you

[@cristianp.884]

Thanks for your video, it was really useful save my job XD

[@leorossi8403]

Great video! Learnt a lot

[@aidanaualikhan4102]

When I try to create a webhook in whatsapp configuration, it says that the ngrok URL couldn't be validated and when I try to create a webhook in webhooks it says that ngrok URL is malicious. What can I do?

[@3101199]

same

[@guilhermecarlos6360]

You can use VSCode port forwarding instead of NGROK, I have gone through the same problem

[@adithyabalagoni2704]

@@guilhermecarlos6360 how?

[@H_A-nb4uf]

@@guilhermecarlos6360 wht else u did ?

[@3101199]

@@guilhermecarlos6360 Thanks friend, could you please explain a little further how to do that? I could not even use ngrok, meta's platform never validated my webhook url

[@fabio336ful]

Thanks a lot! Great tutorial!

[@nachomalaga11]

Hey Dave, what tool or platform do you use to view and manage messages as a company, especially if you want to pause automation and send messages manually?

[@randomtutorial5462]

Awesome tutorial. I can get it working. When I run the server it sends multiple messages. How would I get around this ?

[@juicetin942]

Man you are awesome, never seen a tutorial like this. How do I buy you coffee?

[@daveebbelaar]

That means a lot to me - thank you! KZbin actually has a feature for this where you can click "thanks" just underneath this video (same row as the like button).

[@capitaoTigelinha]

i am getting the error Signature verification failed! I alreqady reloaded the tokenm, created and tested a new ngrock domain many times but it doesnt work. any tips here?

[@NicholasBaird-l2q]

Basically learning that this entire provided code base breaks constantly on MacOS because it has issues with homebrew installed python.

[@TheMangz1611]

This is GOLD!

[@KetanChaudhari-vc7es]

Great tutorials! Is there any way that I can add users using API calls and not manually through meta developer app portal?

[@bandui4021]

Thanks, Dave! What kind of data can be used apart from a PDF? A screenshot or the information from a URL for example?

[@daveebbelaar]

Because this is a custom setup, you can literally use any data you can imagine. You would just have to create a separate service for that.

[@jaydasadia-q5t]

When I try to verify my webhook, I get the following error "The callback URL or verify token couldn't be validated. Please verify the provided information or try again later." and a message on my ngrok command line interface saying GET / 502 Bad Gateway. Can anyone please suggest a way to solve it?

[@jotten8587]

i have the same problem, did you fix it?

[@kalyangoud8227]

Host your application in render and use the api end point for verification

[@sawdickagboke2769]

How is this done?​@@kalyangoud8227

[@StickySmth]

will this work if i use gemini api?

[@manassisodia6116]

Hey Dave, Thanks for tutorial, One more question, can we use our own api (based on llm which can answer question on my data ) and then use it to send answer to the questions asked on this whatsapp bot?

[@cavalcanteluiz413]

Great tutorial, brother!! Thank you.

[@GilHerzbergAlperon]

thanks dave, outstanding project

[@daveebbelaar]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ferasalfarsi897]

Please, zoom in , the font is very small to read and see.

[@abuharibrahim979]

Can you add more videos for your Alchemy classroom?

[@karthikeyakuncham6929]

Excellent video!.....i have followed the same as u shown in the video but facing this error (The callback URL or verify token couldn't be validated.) while configuring webhook can u please help me through this?

[@carlav5285]

What a nice video. Thank you! :)

[@bulutosman]

Hi, I could not see the link for the video that you mention at 25:45

[@AhmadRosyidin-z3n]

I'm in my 20s learning to be a programmer/coding, is it too late or not? I'm doubtful about my current age of 🙂

[@ElectroCoderEC]

What a beautifil tutorial, but i missed the section when you add more phonenumbers for clients, or add them to a whatsapp group. does it possible??

[@b3armonk]

just edit the code so all numbers that comes in are from people who text to you.

[@sawdickagboke2769]

I'm unable to validate webhook with ngrok, i drop the url and am still unable to connect to Whatsapp webhook.

[@wongr643]

somehow i keep getting 403 when i try to verify... not sure why... even when i changed the code to hardcode the logic it still wouldn't send 200. By the way the path in documentation is wrong, you put webhook"s" in the path but it should be webhook. You may want to update that. Thanks Dave for the great content

[@daveebbelaar]

Getting the verification can be tricky. All the pieces have to be in the right place. Also, thanks for pointing that out about the/wehook! I've corrected in the docs.

[@xxx182]

Having the same issue. Tried to deploy to Google app engine and got the same. Anyone was able to fix it?

[@aureliengruchy7769]

Did you solve the issue ? I have the same problem where i don't get the X-Signature-256 in the request header ...

[@SillyZillyMe]

@@aureliengruchy7769 I'm digging through the code right now to figure out where I am going wrong. The "signature" variable for be is empty when I run the program.

[@SillyZillyMe]

I had to modify the code in order to verify the webhook. @webhook_blueprint.route("/webhook", methods=["POST", "GET"]) @signature_required def webhook(): if request.method == "GET": return verify() elif request.method == "POST": return handle_message() I removed this in the views.py and replaced it with the following: @webhook_blueprint.route("/webhook", methods=["GET"]) def webhook_get(): return verify() @webhook_blueprint.route("/webhook", methods=["POST"]) @signature_required def webhook_post(): return handle_message() I also had to comment out a section in whatsapp_utils.py that maybe I just missed in the tutorial. The custom TO-DO response variable wasn't commented out. # TODO: implement custom function here #response = generate_response(message_body) I haven't tested anything past this point but I will update this comment once I successfully make it through the complete tutorial. ChatGPT is crazy good.... I would have never figured this out. EDIT: I was able to get this tutorial to work with the changes that I made @daveebbelaar However I am seeing that the app seems to be getting some some calls to the webhook that repeats a request for old information multiple times. Going to do some more playing around and see what the issue may be.

[@jilojamba]

can we integrate this on websites Dave?

[@dumindukavishka1489]

Nice Work !!!

[@aliabdou7983]

But what if i want all users to contact my bot not only the number we did setup ?

[@Iker44insua]

Hi Dave, is it possible to find a. Easier way??

[@KasunWijesekara]

Thank you for this dude

[@daveebbelaar]

Happy to help!

[@prathamnotorious8685]

Do we necessarily need a real business account ? I don't have a business email ... What can I do?

[@RowanFonda]

Very very cool! Thank you

[@Manish-g2k3g]

Brilliant content :)

[@al-aminibrahim1394]

Great video❤❤

[@andretosin]

It’s still working with ngrok? I couldn’t configure the webhook when running through this tunnel.

[@aicha5987]

Same

[@samuelpfisterer1659]

It seems like it is not working anymore: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqXUZq14rq-if7M

[@olivergilestradahernandez100]

@@samuelpfisterer1659 it don´t work any more

[@camelendezl]

try using an alternative like serveo or pinggy

[@Alice8000]

COOL BRO. Nice tut tut.

[@maxamad13]

I have yet to see any videos on chatbot and if the customer needs live agent it will transfer. Can you help me with that or point me to some kind of library or services. Thanks

[@ShemeshDaniel]

I configured the webhook but when I send messages to the test number nothing happens

[@diakhadiop2128]

it works perfectly but when i ask questions related to the pdf file, the first answer is normal but the GENERATED message says something like it doesn't information related to the airbnb and stuff although in the IDE it answered correctly, anyone can help?

[@sawdickagboke2769]

I clone the repo and everything and i still couldn't pass the first step because of error 400 and showing recipient number is not allowed list

[@abdallateefabdalla9791]

Did you find the solution? I am also suffering from this problem.

[@sawdickagboke2769]

@@abdallateefabdalla9791 I think the problem is from the decorator, I was able to pass this step but the next step was giving problem again

[@nguhprince7417]

I'm having an issue creating the Meta Business Account. I already have one linked to my Facebook profile but the developers page still asks me to create one in order to complete the onboarding process.

[@mehdizoghi-ob1dm]

Hi, i get this error while trying to add callback url . Do you have any idea? Thanks : "message": "Invalid signature"

[@chrisquinn3377]

I am getting this error aswell did you figure it out?

[@nilalzmn]

hi is there any way that i can change the image thumbnail when sharing a link? i wanna make my link personalized

[@CapDavyJons]

Thank you 🙏

[@chhavimohitkar2284]

Can we make it multilingual?

[@ajojotank3448]

Since Whatsapp group api is depreciated is there any way to make a group and add 2 users and have the bot facilitate the conversation? Does anyone have any information on this. Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

[@PoorviAgrawal-c8h]

Facing an issue. Each time I change the access token On sending a message I get the error - Recipient not allowed in the list for which gets resolved on the recipient_waid variable name and running again. Can you something as why it might be happening?

[@servernajmi1354]

already have dashboard front end?

[@luisjaimemartinez6848]

Great video tutorial, i followed all video but i implemented server webhook using nodejs and express, everything works fine until i try to consume meta's cloud API, im getting: Recipient phone number not in allowed list: Add recipient phone number to recipient list and try again. Any thoughts?

[@mominali8397]

Try not using the .env to load the enviroment variables, instead defin them in the same file as were the code is running.

[@4rjunc]

Is there any request limitation while using meta APIs?

[@RobsonBanda-iz4qh]

i had issues with the bearer token, please assist..

[@SoudSuwaid]

does it work for whatsapp business?

[@blueriddlemonster]

Followed every step, but it keeps giving me the 403 error. any idea on how to resolve this? Read a lot on Stack overflow, debugged, but seems that I am really missing a step here ;-)

[@samsontan1141]

why do i get 403 forbidden?

[@SillyZillyMe]

Refer to one of my previous comments. I modified something in the views.py file and was able to get around this issue.

[@varelaseb]

I'm sorry, what comment is that? I'm not seeing it@@SillyZillyMe but going into views.py it seems like everything lines up. current_app.config seems to be pointing to the right token. Been stuck here for a few hours so would deeply appreciate the help

[@GlobalCommunityMinersForum]

hi i cant see your previous comment and would love to know what you midified in the vies.py file thank you! @@SillyZillyMe

[@blueriddlemonster]

@@SillyZillyMe What did you modify? Thanks ;-)

[@mista_ia]

@@SillyZillyMe we did not find that comment, please, how ?

[@TheStRaX_]

Hey admij, can you upload video on how to upload flask app?

[@daveebbelaar]

Check out this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIWoqHqZhdZ_l5o

[@mauricioknob592]

Is it possible to make this bot work on a whatasapp group?

[@jeevanjanaratnam3543]

Is it possible to do this in a WhatsApp group? I have a WhatsApp group with 5 people, including me. If anybody writes a message with, for example, 'help me,' there should be an automatic reply to the group. Is that possible? Any guide?

[@dixithm.g.d7998]

Hey Can anyone tell me how I can add buttons tooo ?