A simple Facebook robot that integrates with https://api.ai. It's based on the official Facebook Messenger API. You can use this as a template to create more complex Facebook robots using Ruby, Sinatra and Heroku.
You can deploy this project on Heroku using the button bellow.
After deployment, define and configure a Verify Token on Heroku. You will be using this token in the next step of the installation process, when configuring the Webhook on your Facebook App.
heroku config:set VERIFY_TOKEN=3141516- Create a Facebook App and Facebook Page https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/quickstart
- Setup the Webhook on your Facebook App using the
VERIFY_TOKENyou have previously defined and the url of your deployed Heroku app +/page_webhook - Get Page Access Token following the Facebook documentation
- Subscribe the App to the Page following the Facebook documentation
- Configure your
PAGE_ACCESS_TOKENon Heroku - Configure your credentials from https://api.ai
heroku config:set PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN=ABC123
heroku config:set APIAI_ACCESS_TOKEN=xpto
heroku config:set APIAI_SUBSCRIPTION_KEY=xpto- Don't forget to configure your Facebook Page messenger to send updates to your app
curl -ik -X POST "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/subscribed_apps?access_token=<token>"You should have by now a functional robot in your Facebook page echoing back your messages. Just open the Facebook page and send a message to your robot.
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Copyright (c) 2016 Luis Silva
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