WhatsApp Heroku Bot

Uses Venom Bot library.

Deploying to heroku

1. Fork this repo

2. Clone it locally

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USER_NAME/whatsapp-heroku-bot

3. Enter the folder

cd whatsapp-heroku-bot

4. (Optional) Install npm dependencies. Recommended if you're going to use venom-bot's features.

npm install

5. If you haven't installed Heroku CLI yet, do it here.

6. If you haven't logged in yet:

heroku login

7. Create a new Heroku app

heroku create your-app-name

8. Add @heroku's nodejs buildpack. Docs here.

heroku buildpacks:set heroku/nodejs

9. Add @jontewks's puppeteer buildpack. Docs here.

heroku buildpacks:add jontewks/puppeteer

10. Add a remote to your repo.

heroku git:remote -a your-app-name

11. Deploy your app to Heroku. This might take a while.

git push heroku main

12. Do

heroku logs

until you see the QR code. Scan it from WhatsApp in your phone.

13. It should be working!

Running locally

1. Fork this repo

2. Clone it locally

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USER_NAME/whatsapp-heroku-bot

3. Enter the folder

cd whatsapp-heroku-bot

4. Install npm dependencies

npm install

5. Run index.js

node index.js

or

npm start

6. Wait until you see the QR code. Scan it from WhatsApp in your phone.

7. It should be working!

Venom Bot docs here.