amuhebwa / messenger-bot-tutorial

🤖 Create your own Facebook Messenger Bot

CMU-Africa 2017 Bot Party & Hackathon

This tutorial is based on the following tutorials:

1. Facebook Quickstart https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/guides/quick-start
2. https://github.com/jw84/messenger-bot-tutorial Copyright (c) 2016 Jerry Wang (https://jw84.co)

🙌 Pre-Party, Get Set

PreParty.md

🙌 Let's Bot Party

Download this GitHub project and unzip it into the myBot1 directory you created in the setup.

Note that the files used in the Basic Tutorial will be under the messenger-bot-tutorial-master/ directory.

Basic Tutorial

Wit.ai Tutorial

📡 How to share your bot

Add a chat button to your webpage

Go here to learn how to add a chat button your page.

Create a shortlink

You can use https://m.me/<PAGE_USERNAME> to have someone start a chat.

💡 What Else?

Here are some references for Carousel Ads and Ad Guidelines from Facebook:

https://designschool.canva.com/blog/snatch-competitive-advantage-facebook-instagram-carousel-ads/?utm_campaign=Retention%3A%20CanvaDrip%3A%20Instagram3

https://www.facebook.com/business/ads-guide/

Let me know anything else that would be useful to share and I will add it.

💡 What's next?

You can learn how to get your bot approved for public use here.

You can go through the tutorial from facebot: m.me/thefacebot. It uses a secure-tunnel and Ngrok to run locally instead of a hosted Web App. Starting at Step 8 it shows an example Bot using PHP.

Read about all things chat bots with the ChatBots Magazine here

You can also design Messenger bots in Sketch with the Bots UI Kit!

Check out ChatFuel to build a Facebook Bot without coding.