pathakshashank17 / Rebot

A WhatsApp reminder bot built upon Twilio's APIs, ExpressJS, and MongoDB.

Rebot 🤖

Rebot (REminder + BOT) is a whatsapp bot built upon Twilio's APIs, ExpressJS and MongoDB. It can send reminders through text messages in whatsapp.

Usage

Set Up

• Click on this link. This will open up whatsapp on your mobile / PC.
• The invitation text has already been filled into the message box, just send the message and you are in! 🎉.

Setting up reminders

• Send set to get a brief insight about usage.
• The general format is set <task-name (required)> <task-time (required)> <task-date (optional)>. Replace angular brackets with the specified fields. Read more about parameters below :
  • task-name: A required field. Type the task that you want to be reminded about in NO SPACES.
  • task-time: A required field. Type the time you want to be reminded at in 24 HOUR format.
  • task-date: An optional field. The default value is current date however you can also type here today if you want to put some extra efforts. For dates other than current date, type in DD/MM format.
• Examples :
  • Set a reminder for Work at 7:30 PM today --> set Work 1930 or set Work 1930 today
  • Set a reminder for Someone's-Birthday on 1st April at 9:00PM --> set Someone's-Birthday 2100 01/04

Viewing reminders

• Send view to view all your upcoming reminders.
• Returns a message to first set up some reminders if not done so.

Keep in mind

Just like me, this bot is lazy 🦥 and needs to sleep 😴 0000 to 0600 (IST) everyday (due to Heroku's policies). So try NOT to set any reminders for the above timings. Also Twilio's WhatsApp API is in beta which may cause issues or even stop working all together. Also this project is eventually destined to be sun-setted after the trial balance of Twilio is over.

All contributions and issues are welcome 🤗.