Twilio Personal Bot

This is a personal Whatsapp bot built using Twilio API in nodejs. The backend database used is postgreSQL.

Available commands

/login
/save <note tag> <content aka whatever you wanna save>
/book <bookmark content or url or whatever>
/vnote <note tag>
/vbook

Want one for yourself ?

1. Head over to Twilio's website

2. Create an account and login if you haven't and configure your number with the Twilio whatsapp sandbox

3. Follow the instructions you find on the website

4. Now head over to Heroku to deploy the bot. Sign up if you haven't already and login

5. Create an application and add heroku-postgres as a resource

6. Run the following commands using the heroku cli to create the tables in the database

    CREATE TABLE users (phone varchar not null);
    CREATE TABLE content (phone varchar not null, note varchar not null, message varchar);
    CREATE TABLE bookmarks (phone varchar not null, bookmark varchar);
   

7. Alright now your database is all set up and ready to start storing information

8. Deploying this server

   • Clone this repository

   • Create a .env file containing the following information

       PORT=<a port number>
       SID=<The SID that you can get from Twilio dashboard>
       TOKEN=<The SID that you can get from Twilio dashboard>
       ENV=production
       PROD_URL=<The heroku-postgres url that you'll get from settings>
     

   • Push code to heroku using heroku cli or from Github itself

9. Test by sending any of the commands to the bot