Minimal set up to test a Messenger a Chat Extension. You provide a HTTPS URL and a Page token, and it does the rest:
- automatically sets up the Messenger profile for your Facebook page
- responds to messages sent to the page with a button to open the Chat Extension
Note: Chat Extension not included, please bring your own.
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Clone this repo, run
npm install -
Add the following
.envfile:
# URL of your chat extension. Must be HTTPS and non-local.
CHAT_EXTENSION_HOME_URL=https://my-host.com/chat-ext
# Page access token of your Facebook test page
PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN=xxxx
- Start this app. By default it runs on
PORT=5000
$ npm start
The app will set up the Messenger profile of your page on startup; watch the logs for details.
- Expose this app on a non-local HTTPS URL.
Consider using ngrok to expose your local HTTP server.
$ ngrok http 5000
- Register the public url of this app on as the Messenger Webhook in your Facebook app settings.
Your Webhook URL:
https://xxxx.ngrok.io/webhooks/messenger
The default value of the verification token for registering the webhook is
hello
- Subscribe your bot to your test Facebook page, then send a message to it.