Installation

Requirement

Java 17 or later
Maven 3.3.2 or later

Configure the token as enviornment variable at runtime as illustrated below WHAPI_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Start ngrok to listen to the requests that are being sent to the channel. The default port is 8080.

ngrok http 8080

Build the code

mvn clean package

Configure whapi token

For MAC/Linux set the variable as shown

export WHAPI_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

For Windows

set WHAPI_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Jar Execution

If the variable is set with one of the above enviornment option the jar can be executed as given below.

java -jar ./whatsapp-bot-1.0.jar

It can also be passed during the jar execution as mentioned below.

java -DWHAPI_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -jar target/whatsapp-bot-1.0.jar

Configure the ngrok https url with the application listener endpoint in this case /webhook as the URL in the whapi dashboard.