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Evaluate the time and effort needed to build a connection to a Whatsapp bot #46

Closed Popolechien closed 5 months ago

Popolechien commented 4 years ago

Context: contact is distributing e-books and examination papers to people in areas with low connectivity (South Africa / Uganda).

He's asked for a zim file (can be done via Nautilus) that can either be distributed or also queried via a whatsapp bot (they are using wati.io). The way it's been described the bot would offer a list of contents (files) as menu items, and based on user choice would send the corresponding file in return.

We've seen people use Kiwix-serve and feed it into a whatsapp bot already, though they were using PickyAssist for the whatsapp end of things. Here's their feedback : "What we did was fetch content from kiwix server, then remove HTML since WhatsApp doesn't understand that. And then we added the little conveniences like allowing a user to read large pages in small chunks and that about it.

Really the hard part is getting access to WhatsApp and then building a bot in general. After that, its as easy as adding any other functionality to your bot."

Questions:

  1. assuming we are given access to the wati backend, how much work would be needed to plug Kiwix-serve into their whatsapp bot?
  2. Wouldn't this scenario only make sense if the bot is used to query more than one zim? (e.g. nautilus-based + wikipedia)
  3. If we skip the Kiwix-serve part, can we still build it, and how long would it take?
kelson42 commented 4 years ago

Wati.io is down for the moment, no clue how it works. To make evaluation we need to know the uses cases. Which features should have this tool? Input/putput detailed. In principle I don’t see any big problem but without details about the platform and the features, this is impossible to provide numbers.

rgaudin commented 4 years ago

works for me

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kelson42 commented 3 years ago

@Popolechien Should we keep this ticket open?

Popolechien commented 3 years ago

Yes please.

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kelson42 commented 5 months ago

@Popolechien Whatbis the perspective here? I‘m not sure to understand where we go.

Popolechien commented 5 months ago

@kelson42 that was four years ago and we haven't heard of whatsapp bots becoming a thing, I think we can close this ticket.