Deploy with Heroku

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

Watch this tutorial on Youtube

Requirements :

• Heroku account
• MongoDB
• YouTube Data API Key
• A Terminal to generate the Session (Local \ Repl)

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

node genToken.js

• You will see a QR code, scan this QR code from your Phone's Whatsapp Web QR scanner.
• After you successfully do that you will get a JSON output. Copy that it will be needed while you deploy.

Method 2

Go to https://ssh.cloud.google.com or https://labs.play-with-docker.com/

• Run This

docker run jeeetpaul/whatsbot-session

• Scan QR Code with Whatsapp and copy the JSON

Method 3 (For Mobile)

Go to https://ssh.cloud.google.com or https://labs.play-with-docker.com/

• Run This

docker run -p 8080:8080  jeeetpaul/whatsbot-session-lite

• Open your 8080 Port
• Scan QR Code with Whatsapp and copy the JSON

Method 4

• Open https://web.whatsapp.com (On PC) and login
• Open Developer Tools and go to console
• Paste this 👇

const WhatsBlob = document.createElement("a");
WhatsBlob.href = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([JSON.stringify({
    WABrowserId: localStorage.getItem("WABrowserId"),
    WASecretBundle: localStorage.getItem("WASecretBundle"),
    WAToken1: localStorage.getItem("WAToken1"),
    WAToken2: localStorage.getItem("WAToken2")
})], { type: 'application/json' }));
WhatsBlob.download = "session.json";
document.body.appendChild(WhatsBlob);
WhatsBlob.dispatchEvent(
    new MouseEvent('click', {
        bubbles: true,
        cancelable: true,
        view: window
    })
);

• A file named session.json will be downloaded, Open that and copy.

2. 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

3. Now you need a Youtube Data API Key, follow these steps (Optional) 👇

• Open https://console.cloud.google.com/ & create a project
• Go to Apis & Services and search Youtube Data Api you will found YouTube Data API v3 select that and enable that
• Now again go to Apis & Services click Credentials and click CREATE CREDENTIALS & select API Key
• An API Key will be displayed Copy That it will need while you deploy Whatsbot

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

• Click this button 👇
  
• Give an APP Name
• Select the server according to your MongoDB server's Location, It will Speed Up Database intensive works
• 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
• PMPERMIT_MUTETIME - How many seconds an user get muted if he is spamming. Default is 30 Minutes (1800 Secs)
• SESSION - That JSON you grabbed before by running genToken.js
• YT_DATA_API_KEY - Youtube DATA API Key you grabbed before from GCP
• 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.