twilio-hook

Simple Twilio Whatsapp Chatbot webhook built with Laravel.

Intro

Easily serve a custom webhook for your twilio Whatsapp chatbot. Intended for people who want to run a custom webhook that follows a USSD like structured process, thus a step by step interaction. i.e:

Step 1 - Select Language:

  1. English
  2. Chichewa

Step 2 - Select a level:

  1. Service 1
  2. Service 2
  3. Back

......extra level option sets

This project currently provides an example requiring the dev to write static methods for each level.

The idea is to have something that a dev can just plug in the necessary data ,something like a JSON tree of the steps and the hook app auto handles the responses.

Installation

Clone repository

Use SSH

git clone [email protected]:Fraganya/twilio-hook.git

Install composer dependencies

Change into project directory and install composer dependencies

composer install

Install npm dependencies

For devs , install npm dependencies

npm install

Create .env file

Copy the .env.example file to .env

This can easily be achieved by running

    cp .env.example .env

Set Application key

Set the application key by running

php artisan key:generate

Twilio Configuration

In your Twilio console , configure your whatsapp bot settings and configure them in your .env file.

• TWILIO_AUTH_SID
• TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN
• TWILIO_WHATSAPP_FROM

Other Configs

To reflect your running environment, You can update the env parameters such as

Database

• Database name
• Database username
• Database password
• Database Port
• Database host