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Handling Incoming WhatsApp Messages (Webhook)

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Video by manfra․io on YouTube · 26 min. We did not make this video and we do not host it — watching it here still counts as a view for the creator.

The tutorial shows how to expose a /whatsapp POST endpoint and read req.body.Body. A common mistake is responding with plain text; Twilio expects a valid TwiML XML response or a 200 OK with no body.

In production you would secure this endpoint with validation tokens, but for the sandbox a simple response suffices to get the bot talking.

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