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Tuhin Kanti Pal edited this page May 9, 2022 · 27 revisions

Deploy Whatsbot with Heroku is very simple. It is fully compatible with Heroku

Watch this tutorial on Youtube

Watch it on Youtube

Deploy :

1. You Have to create a WhatsApp session that Whatsbot can start. You can do it by cloning this repo and run genToken.js, You can follow these steps also 👇

Method 1
  • Open it in any terminal (NodeJS and Npm) and run the following codes
git clone https://github.com/TheWhatsBot/WhatsBot.git

cd WhatsBot
npm install
npm run gentoken
  • Put your SESSION_KEY
  • You will see a QR code, scan this QR code from your Phone's Whatsapp Web QR scanner.
  • After authenticated you will see a new file session.secure has been created in the root directory.
Method 2

Go to https://ssh.cloud.google.com

  • Run This
docker run -p 8080:8080 -it  jeeetpaul/whatsbot-session
  • Scan QR Code with Whatsapp and see your personal chat for the session
  • Open your 8080 Port Open 8080 Port GCP
  • Go to https://8080-your-cloudshell.cloudshell.dev/session.secure and download session.secure

2. Upload session.secure into Github, Your own server etc and copy the direct link of it

Example:

https://thetuhin.com/session.secure

3. Now you need MongoDB, You can create it for free. Follow these steps 👇

  • Open https://cloud.mongodb.com
  • Click the Try MongoDB Cloud Now Button
  • Now you can Fill the Form or Sign Up with Google
  • After Successfully Signed Up Type any Organization Name, Project Name and select any preferred language and click Continue
  • You can see a Pricing Page select Free and click Create a Cluster
  • Select AWS North America or Europe server only because Heroku's server is also located there and click Create Cluster
  • Now you will see a cluster is creating
  • click Network Access in Sidebar & click Add IP Address
  • Now click ALLOW ACCESS FROM ANYWHERE and Confirm that
  • click Database Access in Sidebar & click Add New Database User
  • Now in Password Authentication Method type any Username and a Password and click Add User
  • click Clusters in Sidebar & click connect & Select Connect your application
  • Now you will see an URL containing mongodb+srv:// Copy that and replace < password > with Your Previously chosen password (If you used any special character in password you have to url encode the password)
  • You need this MongoDB URL to deploy Whatsbot

4. Now Everything is ready you can Deploy it, Follow these steps 👇

  • Click this button 👇
    Deploy with Heroku
  • Give an APP Name
  • Select the server according to your MongoDB server's Location, It will Speed Up Database intensive works
  • SESSION_URL - secure.session Direct url
  • SESSION_KEY - Encrypted key for which you typed after running the npm run gentoken
  • DEFAULT_TR_LANG - It is the default translation language for Translator Module. Default Value is en
  • MONGODB_URL - MongoDB url you grabbed before
  • PMPERMIT_ENABLED - Enable Pmpermit or Disable it. Write true or false. Default Value is true
  • OCR_SPACE_API_KEY - OCR Space API Key. You can get the API Key from here

5. It needed a Cron Job (> 30 mins) to keep the server alive. Follow these steps 👇

  • Open https://cron-job.org its free
  • Click Sign Up and Complete the Signup
  • After that click cronjobs in navigation header & click Create Cron Job
  • Give your heroku application url
  • Schedule it in every 15 minutes
  • Everything rest will be default
  • click Create Cronjob to create a cron job



You will not get any error if you follow these steps correctly. However, if you encountered any error, you can message at Whatsbot Support on Telegram.

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