WilBot is my personal bot for Facebook Messenger. It can be used as a starting point for your own personal bots 🤖🤖
Talk to WilBot! Use the messenger code below or follow this link
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There are two env variables that should be set before starting the process: PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN and VERIFY_TOKEN. You get both values from Facebook's developers console. If you don't set them, your calls to Facebook's API will fail. To run the project for the first time, do:
$ npm install
$ npm start
Follow the official documentation for setting up your bot. This project also includes two scripts that are part of the setup:
create_greeting.sh: Sets the greeting text that users see when they first discover your bot. To run it, you must pass your page access token as an argument. Ex:
$ ./create_greeting.sh my_page_access_token
create_get_started.sh: Sets the 'Get Started' button that users see the first time they interact with your bot. You must also pass your page access token as an argument. Ex:
$ ./create_get_started.sh my_page_access_token
Note that the payload 'get_started' is defined by me and part of the payloads supported in the project
The project is an express app (see bot.js) that supports the GET and POST methods for the '/webhook' path. Anytime we receive an event from Facebook, it sends a sender_action to mark the message as read and then it will determine if it is a message or a postback and handle it accordingly.
The brain folder has all the payloads supported by the bot as well as the sequence of messages that should be sent for each payload.
You can follow the code if you want more detail.
I would love to have your feedback! Ask WilBot for my contact info and let me know 🤖🤖
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