messaging-api-messenger

Messaging API client for Messenger

Table of Contents

Installation
Usage
API Reference
Debug Tips
Testing

Installation

npm i --save messaging-api-messenger

or

yarn add messaging-api-messenger

Usage

Initialize

const { MessengerClient } = require('messaging-api-messenger');

const client = new MessengerClient({
  accessToken: ACCESS_TOKEN,
  appId: APP_ID,
  appSecret: APP_SECRET,
  version: '6.0',
});

If the version option is not specified, 6.0 will be used by default.

Verifying Graph API Calls with `appsecret_proof`

If appSecret is provided, MessengerClient will enable this feature automatically and include appsecret_proof in every Graph API requests. To skip it, set the skipAppSecretProof option to true:

const client = new MessengerClient({
  accessToken: ACCESS_TOKEN,
  appId: APP_ID,
  appSecret: APP_SECRET,
  skipAppSecretProof: true,
});

Error Handling

messaging-api-messenger uses axios as HTTP client. We use axios-error package to wrap API error instances for better formatting error messages. Directly calling console.log with the error instance will return formatted message. If you'd like to get the axios request, response, or config, you can still get them via those keys on the error instance.

client.sendRawBody(body).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error); // formatted error message
  console.log(error.stack); // error stack trace
  console.log(error.config); // axios request config
  console.log(error.request); // HTTP request
  console.log(error.response); // HTTP response
});

API Reference

All methods return a Promise.

Send API - Official Docs

Content Types - Content types

Templates - Official Docs

Quick Replies - Official Docs

To send messages with quick replies to the specified user using the Send API, pass quickReplies option to send message methods, for example, with sendText:

await client.sendText(USER_ID, 'Pick a color:', {
  quickReplies: [
    {
      contentType: 'text',
      title: 'Red',
      payload: 'DEVELOPER_DEFINED_PAYLOAD_FOR_PICKING_RED',
    },
  ],
});

with the sendImage option:

await client.sendImage(USER_ID, 'https://example.com/vr.jpg', {
  quickReplies: [
    {
      contentType: 'text',
      title: 'Red',
      payload: 'DEVELOPER_DEFINED_PAYLOAD_FOR_PICKING_RED',
    },
  ],
});

It works with all of message sending methods.

Sender Actions - Official Docs

Attachment Upload API - Official Docs

Note: Only attachments that were uploaded with the isReusable property set to true can be sent to other message recipients.

Message Batching - Official Docs

sendBatch

There are a bunch of factory methods can be used to create batch requests:

MessengerBatch.sendRequest
MessengerBatch.sendMessage
MessengerBatch.sendText
MessengerBatch.sendAttachment
MessengerBatch.sendAudio
MessengerBatch.sendImage
MessengerBatch.sendVideo
MessengerBatch.sendFile
MessengerBatch.sendTemplate
MessengerBatch.sendButtonTemplate
MessengerBatch.sendGenericTemplate
MessengerBatch.sendReceiptTemplate
MessengerBatch.sendMediaTemplate
MessengerBatch.sendAirlineBoardingPassTemplate
MessengerBatch.sendAirlineCheckinTemplate
MessengerBatch.sendAirlineItineraryTemplate
MessengerBatch.sendAirlineUpdateTemplate
MessengerBatch.sendSenderAction
MessengerBatch.typingOn
MessengerBatch.typingOff
MessengerBatch.markSeen
MessengerBatch.getUserProfile
MessengerBatch.passThreadControl
MessengerBatch.passThreadControlToPageInbox
MessengerBatch.takeThreadControl
MessengerBatch.requestThreadControl
MessengerBatch.associateLabel
MessengerBatch.dissociateLabel
MessengerBatch.getAssociatedLabels

Those methods have exactly same argument signature with the methods on client.

Custom Labels - Official Docs

User Profile API - Official Docs

getUserProfile

Messenger Profile API - Official Docs

Persistent Menu - Official Docs

Get Started Button - Official Docs

Greeting Text - Officail docs

Whitelisted Domains - Official Docs

Account Linking URL - Official Docs

Handover Protocol API

Page Messaging Insights API - Official Docs

Requirements for insights API:

The page token must have read_insights permission.
Insights are only generated for a Facebook Page that has more than 30 people that like it.
getInsights
getBlockedConversations
getReportedConversations
getTotalMessagingConnections
getNewConversations

Built-in NLP API - Official Docs

Event Logging API - Official Docs

logCustomEvents

ID Matching API - Official Docs

Persona API - Official Docs

Others

Debug Tips

Log Requests Details

To enable default request debugger, use following DEBUG env variable:

DEBUG=messaging-api:request

If you want to use a custom request logging function, just provide your own onRequest:

const client = new MessengerClient({
  accessToken: ACCESS_TOKEN,
  onRequest: ({ method, url, headers, body }) => {
    /* */
  },
});

Testing

Point Requests to Your Dummy Server

To avoid sending requests to real Messenger server, specify the origin option when constructing your client:

const { MessengerClient } = require('messaging-api-messenger');

const client = new MessengerClient({
  accessToken: ACCESS_TOKEN,
  origin: 'https://mydummytestserver.com',
});

Warning: Don't do this on your production server.