I’m creating a whatsapp bot using the node library whatsapp-web.js After I’m done with the script it looks something like (I just put a overview of the orignal script) –
index.js
const {Client, LocalAuth, MessageMedia } = require('whatsapp-web.js');
const qrcode = require('qrcode-terminal');
const client = new Client({
puppeteer: {
args: ['--no-sandbox', "--disable-setuid-sandbox"]
},
authStrategy: new LocalAuth()
});
client.on('qr', (qr) => {
console.log('qr received: ', qr);
qrcode.generate(qr, {small:true});
});
client.on('ready', () => {
console.log('READY');
});
client.on('message', async msg => {
let type = msg.type;
let chat = await msg.getChat();
if(chat.isGroup) {
//do something
}else {
//
if(msg.body === "ping") {
msg.reply("pong");
}
}
});
Everything is fine with the script and it works good on linux or ubuntu (I already added puppeteer build pack on that Heroku app). As I need to run that script continuously I decided to put that on a worker process.
Procfile
worker: node index.js
But now the problem comes in role, how can I authenticate here? I decided to remove that line from index.js
qrcode.generate(qr,{small:true});
And insted I thought I will print all the logs on heroku-cli
heroku logs -a wweb-bot
#my app named as wweb-bot
and from there access the key generated as qr. After that I’ll turn it into a qrcode and scan it. When I did all setup and try it I was getting a continuously generating logs of qr keys. It’s nonstop, and keep generating keys after every 15-20 sec. What’s the problem here? Is it because Heroku has a read only environment or anything else is missing? Please help me how can i do it
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Answers
Edit: now whatsapp-web.js added new functionality of doing this called RemoteAuthStatergy just go throughout it.
remove or comment this code
// authStrategy: new LocalAuth()
it will not work on heroku
but as the code is on server, you don’t need to scan again and again, you need to scan only you restart your server
but if you are facing puppeteer error then add these buildpacks in heroku /your project/settings/ scrol down to adduildpack
add these two buildpacks
then redeploy your app
Tried it on Render, Firebase functions and Google Cloud run. Couldn’t do it. Had to use a google vm instance at last.