Facebook Messenger Bot

Working :

• Says Hi on entering the Chat.
• Asks for your name.
• Asks for your birth date.
• Asks if the user wants to find out how many days till his next birthday. [The bot accepts ("yes", "yeah", "yup", "no”, "nah", etc) as replies]
• The REST endpoints are /messages, /messages/:id, /summary, respectively

DEMO VIDEO

GIF SNIPPETS

Click on Get Started

Provide Your Name

Provide Your Birth Date

Answer with a negetion/validation

REST API Endpoint for all messages

REST API Endpoint for a particular messages

REST API Endpoint for all user data

Made with BootBot CLI

Runnig on Local Machine

sudo npm i bootbot-cli

npm install

npm start

Packages & Tech Used :

• Bootbot
• Express
• Mongoose
• Shortid

Before starting initialise your env values in .env & bootbot config variables in config/default.json file

// Initialise .env
MONGO_USERNAME=YOUR_MONGO_USERNAME
MONGO_PASSWORD=YOUR_MONGO_PASSWORD
MONGO_DBNAME=YOUR_MONGO_DBNAME
PORT=YOUR_PORT

// Initialise config/default.json For BootBot Variables
{
  "accessToken": "YOUR_FACEBOOK_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN",
  "verifyToken": "YOUR_FACEBOOK_PAGE_VERIFY_TOKEN",
  "appSecret": "YOUR_FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET",
  "botPort": "YOUR_BOT_PORT", // Without "" Integer
  "botTunnelSubDomain": "YOUR_BOT_LOCALTUNNEL_DOMAIN_NAME"
} 

It currently runs locally only as the Facebook App is not yet published