Automa Laravel WhatsApp

A Composer-installable Laravel WhatsApp Cloud API automation engine. It provides Meta Graph API integration, verified webhooks, persistent contacts/conversations/messages, state and context, interactive messages, templates, media, events, queues, bots and a JSON flow engine.

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 11, 12 or 13
• Meta WhatsApp Cloud API credentials

Install

composer require automa/laravel-whatsapp
php artisan whatsapp:install
php artisan migrate

Configure .env:

WHATSAPP_ACCESS_TOKEN=
WHATSAPP_PHONE_NUMBER_ID=
WHATSAPP_BUSINESS_ACCOUNT_ID=
WHATSAPP_VERIFY_TOKEN=
WHATSAPP_APP_SECRET=
WHATSAPP_API_VERSION=v23.0
WHATSAPP_WEBHOOK_PATH=whatsapp/webhook
WHATSAPP_PROCESS_WEBHOOKS_ASYNC=true
WHATSAPP_QUEUE_CONNECTION=database
WHATSAPP_QUEUE_NAME=default
WHATSAPP_DEFAULT_BOT=

Set your Meta webhook callback URL to /whatsapp/webhook, subscribe to messages, and use the verify token above.

Sending messages

use Automa\WhatsApp\Facades\WhatsApp;

WhatsApp::text('263771234567', 'Hello!');
WhatsApp::buttons('263771234567', 'Choose an option', [
    ['id' => 'products', 'title' => 'Products'],
    ['id' => 'support', 'title' => 'Support'],
]);
WhatsApp::list('263771234567', 'Choose a department', [
    ['title' => 'Departments', 'rows' => [
        ['id' => 'sales', 'title' => 'Sales'],
        ['id' => 'support', 'title' => 'Support'],
    ]],
]);
WhatsApp::template('263771234567', 'welcome', 'en_US');

The facade resolves MessageService. For media operations use MediaService, for templates use TemplateService, for conversation state use ConversationManager.

Persistent state

$conversationManager->put($conversation, 'customer.name', 'Allen');
$name = $conversationManager->state($conversation, 'customer.name');
$conversationManager->putContext($conversation, 'cart.total', 120);

Bots

Implement Automa\WhatsApp\Contracts\Bot, register the class in whatsapp.bots, and set WHATSAPP_DEFAULT_BOT.

JSON flows

FlowEngine supports reply, buttons, list, template, set_state, and set_context nodes with equals, contains, and exists conditions. Example:

$flow = [
  'nodes' => [
    ['type'=>'reply', 'when'=>['field'=>'text','operator'=>'equals','value'=>'hello'], 'message'=>'Hello {{ state.customer.name }}!'],
    ['type'=>'buttons', 'body'=>'Choose one', 'buttons'=>[
      ['id'=>'products','title'=>'Products'],
      ['id'=>'support','title'=>'Support'],
    ]],
  ],
];

Events

• MessageReceived
• MessageSent
• ConversationStarted
• ButtonClicked

Security

If WHATSAPP_APP_SECRET is configured, POST webhooks are checked against X-Hub-Signature-256. Webhook verification uses the configured verify token.

Tests

composer install
vendor/bin/phpunit

Publishing

Push this repository to GitHub/GitLab, create a tagged release, and register automa/laravel-whatsapp on Packagist. Consumers can then install it with composer require automa/laravel-whatsapp.