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Sumanjay edited this page Jul 1, 2021 · 27 revisions

Deploy Whatsbot with heroku is very simple. It is fully comptible with Heroku

Watch this tutorial on Youtube

Watch it 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 got 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

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")
}, null, 2)], { 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 a 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 Amarica or Europe server only because heroku's server are 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 an 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 👇

  • 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 👇
    Deploy with Heroku
  • 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 do a message at Whatsbot Support on Telegram.

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