Boilerplate Facebook Messenger Bot

Installation

  $ npm install
  $ node index.js

Usage

1. Create a Facebook App and Page.
2. Setup your webhook for your app by going here, selecting your app, and selecting the Messenger tab on the left. Register new webhook by putting in "https://your domain here/webhook" for the webhook, entering a verify token that you decide, and selecting the "messages" subscription field.
3. Get your access token by selecting your App under the "Token Generation" header.

At this point, create a secrets.json file under this repository with the following format:

{
  "accessToken": "<enter your access token from step 3>",
  "verifyToken": "<enter your verify token from step 2>"
}

Don't forget to subscribe your App to the Page (this only needs to be done once per app unless you get unsubscribed:

curl -ik -X POST "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/subscribed_apps?access_token=<token>"

Now you can run this service on your server and have your bot start responding to chats!

To run the service in the background forever, use forever.

  $ [sudo] npm install forever -g
  $ forever start index.js