Three recipes for HighLevel. Each names its trigger and the BlueBot step, lists the fields to map and says how to test it with your own number before anyone else gets a text.
How HighLevel connects
Zapier: BlueBot’s Zapier app has a Send Text action and instant triggers for incoming texts and every change of state.
Text Hook: A Text Hook is a BlueBot address the app posts its own webhook to. You map its fields to a recipient and a template, and each post becomes a text.
API: Your own code calls BlueBot’s REST API and listens to its signed webhooks.
Add a webhook action to your HighLevel workflow and paste the address.
Run the workflow once, then map the contact’s phone and first name from the payload BlueBot kept.
Write the template, and each run of the workflow sends a text from your number.
Map the fields
Text Hook setting
Set it to
Recipient
The field in HighLevel’s post that holds the person’s phone number, written as a path such as {{body.phone}}.
Text
Hi {{body.first_name}}, it’s Alex from Summit Fitness. Your intro session is booked. Reply here if you need to change it.
Metadata
source set to gohighlevel. BlueBot adds the hook’s id by itself.
Test it
Post a sample to the hook’s address with your own number in the phone field, as below. A text arrives on your phone, and the hook’s page lists the post.
Start a Zap with HighLevel’s trigger for a new contact.
Add BlueBot’s Send Text action and map the contact’s phone to To.
Write the text with their first name mapped in.
Map the fields
BlueBot field
Map it to
To
The person’s mobile number from HighLevel. US numbers can leave off the +1.
Text
Hi {{first_name}}, thanks for signing up! This is Alex at Summit Fitness. Want to book a free intro session?
{{first_name}} in the text
HighLevel’s first name field.
Metadata
source set to gohighlevel, and record_id set to the record’s id, so the status and reply webhooks for this text can find the record again.
Service
Auto, the default: iMessage when the person uses it, otherwise SMS through your iPhone.
Test it
Put your own number in To and press Test step. A text arrives on your phone from your own number, and Zapier shows the message BlueBot returned with state: "queued". Then map HighLevel’s field back into To and turn the Zap on.
Add replies to the contact
Part
What it is
Trigger
A text comes in (BlueBot’s message.received webhook)
Action
A webhook for message.received starts it, and HighLevel takes the text
Point a BlueBot webhook for message.received at your own endpoint.
Find the contact by the sender’s number through HighLevel’s API.
Add the reply to the contact as a note so it shows on their record.
Map the fields
From BlueBot
Into HighLevel
data.from
The phone number to find the person by in HighLevel. It’s in E.164 (+15555550123); search by the last 10 digits if HighLevel stores numbers another way.
data.text
The words, for a note, a row or a message. Null when the person sent only a picture.
data.received_at
When it came in, in UTC.
data.files
Pictures and voice memos. Each url works for an hour, so copy a file you want to keep.
data.chat_id
Set when the text came in a group chat; null for a one-to-one text.
Test it
Run bluebot listen --forward-to http://localhost:3000/webhooks, then text your BlueBot number from another phone. The CLI forwards the event to your handler, signed. BlueBot copies texts from people you’ve texted through it, unless you set Which chats to copy to Everything.
Before you turn it on
Text only people who asked to hear from you. Anyone who replies STOP goes on your stop list, and BlueBot cancels texts to them. Stop words
A text that can’t go yet waits with a hold rather than failing: quiet hours, your Mac away, a daily limit. Holds