Whatsapp bot listening messages in group

Is it possible to add a Bot to a Whatsapp Group?

We send all of our received payment details to the group and I built an automation in n8n to parse the messages and add upload the relevant data into a Googel Sheets sheet, but I don’t know how to add a “listener” (the bot) to the whatsapp group to read the messages and process them.

Is this possible? Is there any alternative?

Thanks in advance

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Officially I don’t think it’s possible.

But the alternative is very good and it’s called EvolutionAPI.

EvolutionAPI is a self-hosted solution you have to install on your server. It is an unofficial API for WhatsApp Web.

The community node is also very well built and is the most downloaded n8n community node in the world.

If you are using n8n Cloud, I’m not sure if you already have access to community nodes, but you will soon.

:point_right: If my reply answers your question, please remember to mark it as a solution.

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This was the solution indeed @solomon
A bit of a hustle to set it up, but works perfectly. What an API!!

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Yeah! I was also amazed when I tried it for the first. And it’s Brazilian!

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