How To Connect OpenAI To WhatsApp (Python Tutorial)

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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:57 Meta Prerequisites
01:22 Create Your Meta Business App
02:25 Add WhatsApp to the App
02:41 Select Phone Numbers
04:37 Send Messages with the API
11:57 Configure Webhooks to Receive Messages
20:40 Understanding Webhook Security
23:14 Learn about the API and Build Your App
24:11 Integrate AI into the Application
28:33 Integrate Your Own AI Functions

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📌 Video Description
In this video, Dave shares how he set up a WhatsApp AI bot using only Python, and he did it for free. He carefully shows you through a repository with all the code and instructions you need to do this on your own devices. Dave makes sure you know the basics, like understanding Python and setting things up in VS Code, so you're ready to make your own WhatsApp AI bot. He points out that you should start with a Meta developer account and make a business app. This is key for linking WhatsApp with the bot.

Dave goes into the technical steps of getting the WhatsApp business app and API ready. This includes getting a test phone number and adding it to Meta's developer portal. He teaches how to use the API to send messages and the important part of setting up environment variables for the bot to work smoothly. Dave shows you how to send a "Hello World" test message and why replying to this message is important for more custom messaging. This part is essential to understand how the bot works with WhatsApp's messaging service.

Next, Dave talks about webhooks, which let the bot receive and answer messages on its own. This part can be tough but also rewarding. It's about setting up webhooks to act when messages come in. Dave takes you through how to set up and protect webhooks, so you can get your applications to listen for messages well. This is important if you want to make interactive and quick-to-respond WhatsApp bots.

Towards the end of the video, Dave looks at adding AI to the WhatsApp bot. This turns it from a simple auto-responder into a smart AI assistant that can handle complex questions. He shows how to use OpenAI services to make the bot better, giving you a peek at what AI can do in messaging apps. Dave finishes by encouraging you to look into more API features and think about the security of webhook interactions. This guide isn't just a tutorial; it's an invite to dive into the exciting mix of AI and messaging apps. It gives you the tools and info to create your own advanced WhatsApp AI bots.

[codewithkin]

You sir, have just earned yourself a new subscriber! Thank you so much for this tutorial, the documentation was a bit tricky but you killed it! Hope to see more from you in future, cheers Dave.

[dhirajkahol]

Thank you for this excellent step-by-step tutorial, was so much required. Keep going strong 👍🙏

[mbottambotta]

thanks Dave, really appreciate the trouble you went through to make this accessible to all of us. Great job! 🙏

[gabrielito]

Awesome, I don't have any idea either Python or programming in general, but this guy explain in such great way that I will try to do it.

[isragaytanmistico]

I am really impressed the great job you made Dave. Thanks to you absolutely. You win another subscriber. I bought a course on udemy on the topic and is not really good explained as you did here. Thanks to you for share your knowledge and keep the good work. Blessings!

[SillyZillyMe]

Really looking forward to the next video (hoping it is very soon). I would like to see how you convert this into a Production environment and setting it up to receive unverified numbers. This setup is very clean and I like that you don't have to botch together the use of other services in order to get it working like I have seen with other tutorials.

[silva]

Thanks so much for this helpful repo and video on that topic!

[recapped]

i have really benefited from your video. thank you so much.

[gokulraj]

Thank you very much . The best video on using whatsapp api . Thank you again

[prakharjain]

Thanks for the useful video. Was able to completely follow and set things up quite quickly.

[abdulrehmanbaber]

HI Dave, Great content! happy for you <3
i have a question... how can i make a chatbot which can take whatsapp chat history and answer our question like" what is the summary of my conversation with dave last night" ? etc

[jean-christopheyervant]

Thanks BRO it's amazing CONTENT I love you

[mista_ia]

Thank you for making this accessible.
So, We can't make it enter Groups? Can't do stickerize things mostly, etc. ?

[skeptomai]

Thank you i needed a detailed tutorial like this one. Just to know, do you hace any code example or tutorial tu use OpenAI and google calendar to make apointments via agents/function calling to add to this tutorial?

[diegodelafuente]

Thanks for share your skills with the community. Great tutorial !

[pmig]

This is great stuff 😊 subscribed! Instead of uploading a pdf file for the gpt assistant, can I use a database?

[UnbelievableButTrueInfo]

Hi @dave Ebbelaar goede video. Ik vroeg me af hoe het zit met memory in de chat zelf

[sameergamer]

Make another video on how to finetune this on our own dataset.

[bulutosman]

Hi, I could not see the link for the video that you mention at 25:45

[eduardodelagarza]

If you are using VSCode you can use the "ports" feature which takes about 30 seconds. Instead of all the hasle of ngrok. Make sure you set the port to public