Whatsapp Integration

A reusable Django app providing enterprise-grade WhatsApp Business API integration with message queuing, Celery task orchestration, Redis-based rate limiting (Lua token bucket), idempotency, and webhook handling.

Designed for production environments and multi-project reusability, this package provides a scalable way to send, track, and process WhatsApp messages across your Django applications.

✨ Features

• ✅ Reusable Django app – install once, integrate anywhere
• 🚀 Celery task orchestration – background message processing with exponential backoff
• 🧠 Idempotency & retry safety – prevents duplicate messages during failures
• 🔐 Secure webhook verification – HMAC validation and token-based verification
• 💬 Unified service API – send_text and send_template with optional components
• 🧩 Redis Lua rate limiter – atomic token bucket algorithm for scalable throughput
• ⚙️ Configurable – all keys & tokens loaded from Django settings.py
• 🧱 PostgreSQL-optimized schema – indexed queries for performance
• 🧰 CI/CD & Docker ready – comes with workflows, Dockerfile, and docker-compose
• 📄 PDF Generator Tool – generate a full repo snapshot in a single PDF

🧩 Architecture Overview

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                      | Django App │
│ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ whatsapp_integration                                    │ │
│ │ ├── models.py ← WhatsAppMessage, WebhookEvent           │ │
│ │ ├── services/ ← WhatsAppService abstraction             │ │
│ │ ├── tasks.py ← Celery async workers                     │ │
│ │ ├── rate_limiter/ ← Redis Lua token bucket              │ │
│ │ ├── views.py ← Webhook endpoints                        │ │
│ │ ├── commands.py ← Command + Event dispatcher            │ │
│ │ └── utils.py ← Error classification, helpers            │ │
│ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

🛠 Installation

1️⃣ Install from PyPI (or locally)

pip install whatsapp_integration

⚙️ Configuration

• Add the app to your Django settings:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "whatsapp_integration",
]

• Environment Variables / Settings

WHATSAPP_PHONE_NUMBER_ID = "1234567890"
WHATSAPP_ACCESS_TOKEN = "your_long_lived_graph_api_token"
WHATSAPP_VERIFY_TOKEN = "your_webhook_verify_token"
WHATSAPP_APP_SECRET = "facebook_app_secret"   # optional but recommended
WHATSAPP_RATE_PER_SECOND = 1.5                # messages per second allowed
REDIS_URL = "redis://localhost:6379/0"

• Make migrations

python manage.py makemigrations

• migrate

python manage.py migrate

• Celery Setup

In your settings.py:

CELERY_BROKER_URL = "redis://localhost:6379/0"
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND = "redis://localhost:6379/0"

Then in your project root:

celery -A your_project worker -l info

🔄 Sending Messages

Use the service directly or queue messages for asynchronous processing.

Example: Send text message immediately

from whatsapp_integration.services import whatsapp_service

whatsapp_service.default_whatsapp_service.send_text(
    recipient="15551234567",
    message="Hello from Django WhatsApp Integration!"
)

Example: Queue message for async send via Celery

from whatsapp_integration.models import WhatsAppMessage
from whatsapp_integration.tasks import send_whatsapp_message_task

msg = WhatsAppMessage.objects.create(
    recipient="15551234567",
    message_type="text",
    payload={"body": "Queued message test"}
)
send_whatsapp_message_task.delay(str(msg.id))

📬 Handling Webhooks

Facebook/WhatsApp will send inbound messages or delivery updates to your webhook.

URL Mapping

Add to your root urls.py:

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    path("api/v1/whatsapp/", include("whatsapp_integration.urls")),
]

This registers:

GET api/v1/whatsapp/webhook/verify/ → for verification handshake

POST api/v1/whatsapp/webhook/ → for inbound message events

Example verification response

GET api/v1/whatsapp/webhook/verify/?hub.mode=subscribe&hub.verify_token=YOUR_TOKEN&hub.challenge=CHALLENGE

Returns CHALLENGE if token matches.

🚦 Rate Limiting (Lua + Redis)

How it works

A token bucket algorithm written in Lua ensures you never exceed Meta’s rate limits:

Each message consumes a “token”.

Tokens regenerate over time according to WHATSAPP_RATE_PER_SECOND.

Fully atomic via Redis EVALSHA (no race conditions).

Lua script: lua_token_bucket.lua

Settings WHATSAPP_RATE_PER_SECOND = 1.0

🧠 Reliability & Idempotency

• Each message is stored with a unique idempotency_key

• Retries use the same key to avoid duplicate delivery

• Failed messages persist for visibility and can be retried manually

Celery Task Behavior

• Exponential backoff retry (2^n seconds)
• acks_late=True to avoid loss on worker crash
• Max 8 retries before marking message as failed

🔐 Webhook Security

• Optional HMAC verification (X-Hub-Signature-256)

• Prevents spoofed or replayed requests

• Use your Facebook App Secret for signing

🧩 Database Schema

WhatsAppMessage

WhatsAppWebhookEvent

Includes:

• Webhook verification test

• Event persistence test

(Extendable for rate limiter and Celery integration)

🧱 Deploying

Recommended environment:

• PostgreSQL

• Redis 7+

• Gunicorn with 2–4 workers

• Celery worker pool (concurrency >= 4)

• Nginx reverse proxy for SSL termination

Production tips:

• Use environment variables for tokens

• Rotate access tokens periodically

• Enable HTTPS and secure webhook secret

💡 Extending Functionality

• Add custom event handlers via register_handler in commands.py

• Extend rate limiter for per-tenant quotas

• Plug in Prometheus metrics to monitor message throughput

• Integrate with an internal analytics pipeline via Celery chains

🏗 Performance Best Practices

• Use persistent Redis connection pools (max_connections=100)

• Deploy Celery worker with concurrency matching CPU cores

• Shard messages across multiple phone numbers if exceeding rate limits

• Use DB connection pooling (e.g. pgBouncer)

• Enable GZIP compression on webhook endpoints for large payloads

📜 License

MIT License © 2025 OFFSIDE INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY (Somtochukwu Emmanuel)

🤝 Contributing

Fork this repo

Create a feature branch

git checkout -b feature/awesome

Commit changes

git commit -m 'Add awesome feature'

Push branch and open a PR 🎉

📞 Support

For enterprise inquiries, please contact offsideint@gmail.com

For bugs, open an issue on GitHub.

Built with ❤️ by OFFSIDE INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY — because WhatsApp deserves enterprise-grade Django integration.