Configuring Webhook

To receive messages from your customers, you need to configure a webhook for your Whatsapp Business Account. The webhook is a URL that you provide to Whatsapp to send messages to your application.

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Configuring Webhook for local development setup

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Getting a public URL for your local development setup

• Using NGROK
• Using Cloudflare Tunnel

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NGROK

If you are developing your application locally, you can use ngrok to expose your local server to the internet.

To use ngrok, follow these steps:

1. Download and install ngrok from here.
2. Run the following command in your terminal to expose your local server to the internet:

ngrok http http://localhost:<your-application-port>

3. You will see something like this in your terminal:

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Cloudflare Tunnel

To use cloudflare tunnel, follow these steps:

1. Download and install cloudflare tunnel from here.
2. Run the following command in your terminal to expose your local server to the internet:

cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:<your-application-port>

3. You will see something like this in your terminal:

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Submitting URL to whatsapp business platform

Follow the steps below to submit your webhook URL to the Whatsapp Business Platform and enable incoming events routing to your local development setup:

1

Visit Your App Dashboard

Visit your application dashboard via Meta Developer Portal

2

Subscribe to the webhook object for your app

3

Add the public URL and webhook secret.

Webhook secret is the same string which you have used in your Wapi.go Application Client.

4

Make sure your Wapi.js local application is up and running before proceeding with verify and save process.

Click Verify and Save