Has anyone ever successfully built a chatbot that operates with the OpenAI API and Whatsapp? How complex is it to obtain the API for Whatsapp, especially for a super small community?

Hi Obtain Whatsapp API is easy just create à whatsapp business account and create an app Search for this video 2022 WhatsApp Cloud API getting started - setup the cloud API | Step by Step

[image] heyitsme: Is there a way without whatsapp cloud API? It seems painful to get the API if you dont have business. Is there a way without whatsapp cloud API? It seems painful to get the API if you dont have business.

Hello! To use the OPENAI API without much effort, you can try installing this application called WhatsAuto - Reply ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.guibais.whatsauto ), but it’s only for Android OS. Activate the options requested by the application and you will be able to easily con…

I have found github progect called whatsapp-chatgpt askrella/whatsapp-chatgpt But the docker not work for me :face_vomiting:

Yes - 100% I took this 1 step further and used AI ‘whisper’ to listen to voice notes and reply.

Could you tell me more about it? Did you used whisper or someting else?

Yeah whisper for the speech to text - When an inbound message comes in, it’s in ogg format. Had amazing results - even with different languages. The text part is then sent to 3.5 turbo for a reply. I was thinking of sending a voice note back, using the AI text to voice - however might be too soon …

Remember what is very important is the message log. Most are under the impression OpenAI stores the replies, this is not the case. So you need a db to retain the convo and include it in each AI request.

did you follow some tutorials or all did you self? Thanks for sharing!

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pedroteles17 November 14, 2023, 12:21am 6

You could use Twilio. There is a cost associated with this service, but it may be a good solution.

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