Hey guys. I need help. I want to start a conversation in some way other than via webchat. I need to start the conversation either by API or by GMAIL I can't find any complete examples. I don't know which payload I need to use. I don't know what to put in the chanell key to make it work. Completely lost. If anyone has an example and can send me I would be very grateful.

have you tried integrating something like zapier?

Converse API

No. I use a whatsapp.js to make my tools and robots. I like to send comand to BotPress API, to start a new conversation... But i looking for in all help documents... I not found an working example. I need: URL to call and body payload example. I using postman for try.

Thank you very much for answering. I'm trying to access but I can't. I'm using the Botpress cloud application. Can you confirm me the full URL to start a conversation? Where do I get the UserID? Can it be any number? The one that is informed in the link above, is not working. See my test on Postman.

Thanks. But I went back to the beginning of it all. I can't get a feedback that the conversation was created and started. Which channel should I use? I think the parameters I'm using in the payload are wrong. See the return of the test I did in Postman, following the help steps. At least the server is responding. Can you help me in this regard? Thank you very much.

Just send channel, tags and integrationName with the post request

Good morning. Thanks again for the feedback. Adjusting as you guided I keep getting the same error. It returns saying that the channel does not exist. I don't understand what the content of this tag should be. Anyway. I still can't start a conversation via the API. I really wanted to install it in the APP we are developing. Is there a real example of this somewhere? does it really work? See my postman's response:

Have you handled authentication correctly? https://botpress.com/docs/api-documentation/#authentication

Hey. I believe I am authenticating correctly. When I use the endpoint to list the conversations, I get the correct result. This makes me understand that the authentication and bot-id number is correct. But when I try to create a conversation. nothing I try works out. Can you tell me if creating a conversation through the API really works? Amazing how there is no working example of this feature. I've been looking for this for 5 days now. See Postman's test accessing the list API. The records are returned, and the 200 success status

@rich-lamp-98721 please advise

There's no converse on Cloud just yet.

Thanks a lot for clarifying. I understood that the product documentation says it exists, but it is not yet in production in the cloud environment. I think of a temporary solution, which would be to have a web page with a script that whenever I run that page, I would send an HI, and then the bot would start a conversation. But I don't know how to make this script in a simple way to run in nodejs. Is there a help with something similar? Anyway, I'll wait for the adjustment to start the conversation through the API. Many, many thanks for all your help!