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That's sounds great! Can you share some docs on WhatsApp bot? IIRC, those APIs were only available to businesses and not individuals.


The OpenAI API is available to everyone. I've spent well over $100 just trying various things out over the past two months. I was not trying to save on it, you can do quite a lot even on $10, just make sure to do some napkin maths before you query som endpoint a lot of times. For example it's a lot easier to spend a lot on Dall-e than it is on GTP-3.5


Sorry for not being clear - I was referring to the Whatsapp Bot API :)


Ah. The thing that I'm using is running some kind of headless Chrome that runs the WhatsApp Web: https://github.com/pedroslopez/whatsapp-web.js

From what I understand this might get killed by Facebook at some point as they never approved this method.


What was the issue with the official API? https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/


It's not available for personal use and requires business verification if I understand correctly: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/overview#terms...


No idea, didn't write it, but it Just Works.


Only wimps use APIs.




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