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WhatsApp-OpenAI Connection

Hi everyone, this is repository for my personal demo project on connecting Twilio and OpenAI to provide answers to all the users questions using OpenAI GPT-3. This is written in Python and served with Flask. This bot can only handle:

• text messgaes

What you will need

There are couple of things that you need before you get started following this repository.

• OpenAI API key, since it is open to all, you can create an account here and access the key.(check your usage limit does not exceeced)
• You need a Twilio project, you can get Account SID and Auth Token for that project, we will need this to make requests. You can get it from here.
• API requesting application like Postman, Insomnia, etc.
• NGROK for local testing.

How to use it

To replicate the work of this repository and run it locally, you need to follow these steps:

• create a .env file inside the root directory, create these environmental variables:

  TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=YOUR ACCOUNT SID
  TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=YOUR AUTH TOKEN
  OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR OPENAI API KEY
  FROM=whatsapp:+14155238886
  

This FROM variable in the .env file is same for the Twilio WhatsApp Sandbox.

• create a virtual environment and activate it before installing the packages
• install all the required dependencies from the requirements.txt file

pip install -r requirements.txt

• run the server with either of the following commands

python run.py

* First install NGROK engine on your local machine
* start NGROK engine on the same port as the python application is running.
* provide the NGROk urlon `Twilio WhatsApp Sandbox` for all incoming request.
* test the setup using your WhatsApp