https://github.com/gustavocstl/facebook-messenger-bot
Messenger Bot - NodeJS and MongoDB using Botkit.ai
https://github.com/gustavocstl/facebook-messenger-bot
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Messenger Bot - NodeJS and MongoDB using Botkit.ai
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/gustavocstl/facebook-messenger-bot
- Owner: gustavocstl
- Created: 2018-01-03T04:05:33.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-01-07T16:14:38.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-25T01:48:26.835Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: botkit, facebook, facebook-messenger, messenger-bot, mongodb, nodejs
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 51.8 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: readme.md
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# Messenger Bot - NodeJS and MongoDB using Botkit.ai
Project under development. Created only to be used as a sample for creating other bots.
### Setting
First of all, configure the .env file according to the your facebook page tokens
```
cp .env.example .env
```
Install the dependencies and then start the development server
```
yarn install
yarn dev
```
By default botkit sets this path to receive webhooks:
```
/facebook/receive
```
### Add conversations and menus via API
You can add conversation type of `postback` or `message_received` with simple POST to `/api/conversations`
In this example I used `message_received` type. The response is a simple text.
```json
{
"type": "message_received",
"hears": ["hello", "hey", "hi"],
"response": "Hey, there!"
}
```
---
We can use `postback` too. In this case we need to specify `payload` field.
The response is a group of buttons.
```json
{
"type": "postback",
"payload": "chat_started",
"response": {
"type": "template",
"payload": {
"template_type": "button",
"text": "Use the buttons below or type a question :D",
"buttons": [
{
"type": "postback",
"title": "Item 1",
"payload": "item1"
},
{
"type": "postback",
"title": "Item 2",
"payload": "item2"
}
]
}
}
}
```
See conversations schema at [src/models/conversations/conversations.js](https://github.com/gucastiliao/facebook-messenger-bot/blob/master/src/models/conversations/conversations.js)
---
#### Docs
- [Botkit](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit)
- [Facebook Messenger](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/send-messages)
#### Contributions
Contributions are welcome!
Just follow the airbnb style guide and these [commit conventions](https://gist.github.com/stephenparish/9941e89d80e2bc58a153)