Whatsapp API service on Render

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Study and test:

1. Try to understand and setup whatsmeow
2. Build Docker image, test, and push to DockerHub if successful.
3. Create Render web service and deploy the Docker container and test
4. Change API URLs in current automation script and test on GitHub actions.
5. If all successful, create a GitHub actions to keep the Render service from stopping to prevent cold starts. May need to create a dummy API endpoint e.g api/health

[adizafri2000]

try checking neonize also for python-native instead of Go

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Implementing keep-alive mechanism using GitHub Actions workflow to curl API service on Render successful. Can refer to this workflow from another repository. Make sure to keep the cron scheduling between 10-14 mins.

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Check out cloudflare workers

[adizafri2000]

Keep-alive mechanism for Render can be implemented by:

1. Deploy API service to render with a health-check endpoint (or any of relevance, e.g api/health)
2. Create a cron job on cron-job.org to call the API at 5-minute intervals. Example

[adizafri2000]

using whatsmeow, need to add this line after SendMessage in send.go

*message.Conversation = strings.ReplaceAll(*message.Conversation, "<br>", "\n")

then need to figure out how to pipe CLI commands from fastAPI (python) to send commands to whatsmeow service