WAJS-BOT-BOILERPLATE

A boilerplate for those who wants a quick start in building a whatsapp bot via whatsapp-web.js.

• If you're looking for REST API version, you can go here: https://github.com/snowfluke/wagate
• For dial-based bot whatsapp, visit: https://github.com/snowfluke/dial-wabot-boilerplate

Contribution

Any features request and contribution are welcome! ^_^

Installation & Configuration

Configuration

1. Make sure you clone this repo first
2. Edit src/config/config.json to match your use case

Installation

1. Node.js, latest is preferable
2. npm package manager, recommended
3. You can go for docker for an easy setups, or if you deploy it manually you will need to install Google Chrome

Windows

Install Google Chrome

Ubuntu

On an Ubuntu server, you will need to run this command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y \
    gconf-service \
    libgbm-dev \
    libasound2 \
    libatk1.0-0 \
    libc6 \
    libcairo2 \
    libcups2 \
    libdbus-1-3 \
    libexpat1 \
    libfontconfig1 \
    libgcc1 \
    libgconf-2-4 \
    libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 \
    libglib2.0-0 \
    libgtk-3-0 \
    libnspr4 \
    libpango-1.0-0 \
    libpangocairo-1.0-0 \
    libstdc++6 \
    libx11-6 \
    libx11-xcb1 \
    libxcb1 \
    libxcomposite1 \
    libxcursor1 \
    libxdamage1 \
    libxext6 \
    libxfixes3 \
    libxi6 \
    libxrandr2 \
    libxrender1 \
    libxss1 \
    libxtst6 \
    ca-certificates \
    fonts-liberation \
    libappindicator1 \
    libnss3 \
    lsb-release \
    xdg-utils \
    wget

Running

5. cd into the project directory
6. run npm install
7. run npm run build
8. run npm start
9. After that you will need to scan the QR that is printed to the terminal
10. You're basically done, or if you want to be more robust, you can use pm2 for a better process management

Debugging

• Delete .wwebjs_auth folder
• Delete node_modules folder
• Delete package-lock.json file
• Logout the linked devices on your Whatsapp
• Remove whatsapp-web.js from package.json
• Run npm install github:pedroslopez/whatsapp-web.js#webpack-exodus

Customization

You can go to commands folder to look for pre-built commands. In there you can duplicate the file and work through a custom commands.

REMEMBER! That filename in commands folder is also the bot commands when you type your prefix + your commands.