/fb-chat-role

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Facebook Chat Role

This is an implementation of facebook-chat-api, that allows for @everyone mention in any messenger group chat, provided the thread ID.

Requirements

nodejs
facebook-chat-api
puppeteer
dotenv
npm

Install

To install nodejs on Debian-based:

sudo apt install nodejs
sudo apt install npm

Then clone this repo, and install the dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/cr105ph1nx/fb-chat-role.git
cd fb-chat-role/
npm install

Usage

  1. Create a .env file in the root directory
touch .env
  1. Copy into .env the following: environement variables and fill them accordingy:
EMAIL = email@here.com
PASSWORD = thisisapassword
THREAD_ID = 000000000000000
  1. Run the script:
node index.js

This generates the appstate.json file using the EMAIL and PASSWORD variables you defined in .env file. Next, it will fetch teh info of all participants in the THREAD_ID variable and add their ID to the mention property of the message to be sent.

Note

For security reasons, make sure to check the password safety section in the facebook-chat-api repo.

Read more of dotenv about environement variables policies