whatsapp-bailyes-microservice

• i am using Baileys, which establishes direct web socket connection with the whatsapp servers, so i don't need to run whatsapp web in background and scarp things or use browser automation which is sometimes painful for me and servers's ram,

• i have modified the Baileys-api for my specific use case, i don't have any kind of need to store the old chat, i just want to send the messages(will store the messages in the db, when i will need to build some kind of automation bot but not now, want to keep things simple)

• i am storing the session related info in the database, i can store them in local json file and use them, but for multi device it is not good, and consistent

• some terms and concept which you will have question:

  • SSE is for server sent events, in case want real time updates
  • jid: The jid is the identifier used by whatsapp for each or group. It use to be [email protected] for users and [email protected] for groups. Some times it differs due to countries with area code. So, check your jid while registering in the returned string and check other users jid with contact info function or you will be banned.

Requirements

• NodeJS version 14.5.0 or higher
• Prisma supported databases. Tested on MySQL and PostgreSQL

todo:

• Creating basic routes and making it live
• storing the session of the existing user and using them
• dockerising whole service
• setting up the ci/cd workflow to push it to docker hub
• adding destroy, status, list methods and remaining methods
• adding security token access so not everybody can access the microservice
• [] creating frontend to access the methods

Installation

1. Download or clone this repo. If you want to skip the build step, you can use the docker image
2. Enter to the project directory
3. Install the dependencies

npm install

4. Build the project using the build script

npm run build

5. Run the project using the start script

npm run start

API Docs

The API documentation is available online here. You can also import the Postman Collection File (postman_collection.json) into your Postman App alternatively

Setup

1. Copy the .env.example file and rename it into .env, then update your connection url in the DATABASE_URL field
2. Update your provider in the prisma/schema.prisma file if you're using database other than MySQL
3. Run your migration

npx prisma migrate (dev|deploy)

or push the schema

npx prisma db push

Don't forget to always re-run those whenever there's a change on the prisma/schema.prisma file

if you don't want to do manually then you can run the following sql query in the database

CREATE TABLE "Session" (
    "pkId" SERIAL NOT NULL,
    "sessionId" VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL,
    "id" VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
    "data" TEXT NOT NULL,

    CONSTRAINT "Session_pkey" PRIMARY KEY ("pkId")
);

CREATE INDEX "Session_sessionId_idx" ON "Session"("sessionId");

.env Configurations

# Pino Logger Level
LOG_LEVEL=warn 

# Database Connection URL
DATABASE_URL=postgres://postgres:12345@localhost:5432/wa_service

# Reconnect Interval (in Milliseconds)
RECONNECT_INTERVAL=5000

# Maximum Reconnect Attempts
MAX_RECONNECT_RETRIES=5

# Auth token to validate the correct request
AUTH_TOKEN=supersecret

Docker Image:

pull the image

docker pull kmj007/whatsapp-bailyes-microservice

run the image with correct env path and port number

docker run --env-file .env  -p 3000:3000 -d kmj007/whatsapp-bailyes-microservice

run with limited memory:

docker run --env-file .env  -p 3000:3000 -d --memory=300mb --restart=always kmj007/whatsapp-bailyes-microservice

local development:

• we are making images for multi platform so we are using buildx to do that

local build:

docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 -t kmj007/whatsapp-bailyes-microservice:local  .

local run:

docker run --env-file .env  -p 3000:3000 kmj007/whatsapp-bailyes-microservice:local

Note:

if you have database running on the same machine and you are running container also on the same machine(stackoverflow):

please use host.docker.internal instead of localhost

spend around 3 hr behind this

Notice

This project is intended for learning purpose only, don't use it for spamming or any activities that's prohibited by WhatsApp