Save articles on Facebook to Pocket by sending them to a Messenger Chatbot.
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To deploy your own bot, follow thoses steps:
Get an account on Heroku, and create a NodeJS application. Download the Heroku CLI as well.
Also add the "mLab MongoDB" plugin to have a free Mongo database that we will use to store the users.
Fork this repository and link it to your Heroku app. From the command line type:
heroku git:remote -a my-app
Go to http://getpocket.com/developers, and request an API key (you only need WRITE access currently but can request READ access to provide further functionalities through the bot in the future)
Follow the procedure here to create a Facebook page and associate a bot to it. Then get the token, the secret, and come up with a verify phrase.
Go to your Heroku Dashboard and go to your apps Settings to set the environment variables:
POCKET_BOT_FACEBOOK_TOKEN='XX'
POCKET_BOT_FACEBOOK_SECRET='XX'
POCKET_BOT_FACEBOOK_VERIFY='XX'
POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY='XX'
HOSTNAME='XX'
git push heroku master
cp .env.dist .env
Update in your .env the variables that you got from Pocket, Facebook, MongoLabs and Heroku.
npm install
node index.js