https://github.com/willianjusten/eve
A simple bot to work with the new Facebook Messenger API using Wit.ai.
https://github.com/willianjusten/eve
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A simple bot to work with the new Facebook Messenger API using Wit.ai.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/willianjusten/eve
- Owner: willianjusten
- Created: 2016-04-18T21:38:01.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2016-04-18T21:48:15.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-18T00:37:12.762Z (2 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 91.8 KB
- Stars: 39
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 11
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: Readme.md
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README
A simple bot to work with the new [Facebook Messenger API](https://messengerplatform.fb.com/), using [Wit.ai](https://wit.ai).
### Example
- Say Hi to [Poncho](https://m.me/hiponcho)
- Read News from [CNN](https://m.me/CNN)
### Getting Started
- [Wit.ai bot setup](https://wit.ai/docs/quickstart)
- [Heroku setup](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs#introduction)
- [Mesenger setup](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/quickstart)
Some steps from Messenger Setup like Webhooks, you have to configure Heroku first.
### Install dependencies
```sh
npm install
```
### Structure
```sh
├── Procfile # tells to heroku what to do
├── bot.js # our bot actions
├── fb-connect.js # connection to facebook uses FB_PAGE_TOKEN
├── index.js # express layer
├── parser.js # our message parser
├── sessions.js # find our define our sessionId
└── settings.js # exports our environmet variables
```
### Define variables on Heroku
In order to work with Facebook and Wit Authentication, you have to create those environment variables on Heroku.
```sh
WIT_TOKEN
FB_PAGE_ID
FB_PAGE_TOKEN
FB_VERIFY_TOKEN
```
### Link and push to heroku
```sh
heroku create
git push heroku master
```
### License
This software is free and open source, distributed under the The MIT License. So feel free to use this without linking back to me or using a disclaimer.
If you’d like to give me credit somewhere on your blog or tweet a shout out to [@willian_justen](https://twitter.com/willian_justen), that would be pretty sweet.