Overview: Building a GroupMe Bot
I’ve played around with GroupMe’s API, but not a lot, and I never built a bot with it. This isn’t a full guide—just an overview of the basics. You’ll have to figure out a lot by yourself.
Step 1: Read GroupMe’s Documentation
Go to dev.GroupMe.com and read their documentation. Make sure to see the basics on their API, although you don’t need to try it out yet.
Get familiar with how you build a bot on GroupMe’s end. (It’s basically just making a listener on GroupMe, listening out for you bot, wherever it’s deployed, giving it access to their API. The actual bot making use of GroupMe’s API you’ll have to build and deploy elsewhere.)
Step 2: Check Out MeBots.io
Go to MeBots.io. Check out their API and documentation. Like I said, I haven’t played around with GroupMe’s or MeBots’s API too much, so I’m not very familiar with it—but I think MeBots API is basically a wrapper for GroupMe’s API.
MeBots API is easier to use, and it also makes it a lot easier to build a bot once and then add it to many groups. MeBots also has libraries in multiple languages for working with their API.
I would start with Python (probably the easiest—because, you know, Python), but I never actually checked out the libraries at all, so do what you want.
Step 3: Build and Integrate
Once you get familiar with the libraries and MeBots API, you can start experimenting with hooking it up to other APIs, like ChatGPT’s API, to create…
a GroupMe bot.
Step 4: Deploy Your Bot
Once you have a finished bot, you’ll have to deploy it somewhere. If you don’t have anywhere to deploy it, check out Heroku. I’ve read that they have the best free plans for this type of stuff, but I never used them—so again, do what you want.
And there you go. You should now have a full-fledged GroupMe bot, running in the cloud.
You’re welcome.