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It's not holding the flow

Hey,

I have a simple webview that lets the user to pick date and time, but once the user selects it I want to close the webview, pass the data back to the conversation and continue from where we left.

Is it possible?

`bot.setPersistentMenu([
{
type: 'postback',
title: 'Help',
payload: 'PERSISTENT_MENU_HELP'
},
{
type: 'postback',
title: 'Settings',
payload: 'PERSISTENT_MENU_SETTINGS'
},
{
type: 'web_url',
title: 'Go to Website',
url: 'http://yostik.io'
}
]);

bot.on('postback:PERSISTENT_MENU_HELP', (payload, chat) => {
chat.say(I'm here to help!);
});

bot.on('postback:PERSISTENT_MENU_SETTINGS', (payload, chat) => {
chat.say(Here are your settings: ...);
});`

Hi,
I'm using bot with conversation as bellow

  bot.on('postback:QUIZ_TEST', function(payload, chat) {
    chat.say("Let' do quiz test", {typing: true}).then(function() {
      chat.conversation(askQuiz)
    })
  })

Then I faced this kind of error.

Error sending message: FetchError: request to https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/messages?access_token=xxx failed, reason: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND graph.facebook.com graph.facebook.com:443

When I query by this url via browser I got a message from response of FB

{
error: {
message: "(#100) For field 'messages': The parameter user_id is required",
type: "OAuthException",
code: 100,
fbtrace_id: "BQLNcgIP4cd"
}
}

It's seem like chat or convo which I used was missing recipient_id (user_id).
I can explicit pass it by using only bot.say(userId, ...) but it's inconvenience.

Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to use account linking feature with bootbot?

Hey,
Starting last week, the "Get Started" button function doesn't work on mobile app. Any solution?

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/send-api-reference/attachment-upload
"is_reusable":true

tag: needs-investigation

Once in awhile, I get this error in my logs, but I can't seem to find the cause:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'forEach' of undefined at data.entry.forEach(/app/node_modules/bootbot/lib/BootBot.js:408:24) 

I'll update if I get it.

Hi, I'm trying to disable user input in my bot, but it doesn't seams to work. Here is my persistent menu setup code:

bot.setPersistentMenu(
[
    {
      "locale":"default",
      "call_to_actions":[
        {
          "type":"postback",
          "title":"Español",
          "payload":"ES"
        },
		{
          "type":"postback",
          "title":"English",
          "payload":"EN"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "locale":"zh_CN",
      "composer_input_disabled":false
    }
  ]
, true);

All the bot interaction will be made with quickreplies and the persistent menu to set the language.

Regards

I want my bot to accept HTTP requests as well so for now what I'm doing something like this

bot.app.get('/', (req, res) => { //Some other stuff });

Now when I'm trying to do POST request with JSON data I was getting "Couldn't validate the request signature." error so for this I had to remove the middleware.

bot.app._router.stack = bot.app._router.stack.slice(0,2)

What I propose is in _verifyRequestSignature check for webhook if it is not let it go as a normal web request.

hello, i am trying to send a generic template but it starts sending and never completes! what is wrong with what i am doing?

  `bot.on('postback:yes-order', (payload, chat) => {
chat.sendGenericTemplate({

    elements:[
      {
        title:"Cold Subs",
        image_url:"https://www.jerseymikes.com/media/static/category-photos/cold-subs.jpg",
        subtitle:"Great cold fast and ready with a smile",
            buttons:[
          {
            type:"postback",
            title:"SELECT",
            payload:"cold-subs"
          }              
        ]
      },
      {
        title:"Hot Subs",
        image_url:"https://www.jerseymikes.com/media/static/category-photos/hot-subs.jpg",
        subtitle:"Fresh grilled and mouth watering goodness",
        buttons:[

          {
            type:"postback",
            title:"SELECT",
            payload:"hot-subs"
          }              
        ]
      },
      {
       title:"Wraps",
        image_url:"https://www.jerseymikes.com/media/static/category-photos/wraps.jpg",
        subtitle:"Wraps wrapped to perfect prefection",
        buttons:[

          {
            type:"postback",
            title:"SELECT",
            payload:"cold-subs"
          }              
        ]
      }
    ]

});`

can @Charca or anyone else show me the right way? thanks!

hello, my webhooks seem to be failing. facebook is sending me alerts saying my webhooks are failing when using this framework. i am hosting node js on heroku. could someone point me in the right direction as far as getting it working? thanks!

Messenger Platform 1.4 is out today with a lot of juicy new updates!

Make sure we support all of them: https://messengerblog.com/platform-updates/messenger-platform-1-4-brings-even-more-tools-to-build-great-experiences/

I want to make generic bot the can communicate with different pages knowing from which page the message received and response to the user in that specific page.

For knowing which page I think It can be done easily from the recipient attribute like this

bot.on('message', (payload, chat) => {
switch(payload.recipient) {
  case '12334784': //page id
    // do something
    break;
  case '9877654': //page id
    // do something
    break;
}
});

But in the first place BootBot accept only one page access token

const bot = new BootBot({
  accessToken: 'PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN',
  verifyToken: 'FB_VERIFY_TOKEN',
  appSecret: 'FB_APP_SECRET'
});

What is the best way to accomplish such thing? How to accept messages from different pages?

I faced with problem that users sometimes answers to same question in few messages.
Any ideas how to workaround this?

How to configure white list configuration ?

Hey folks,

I'm planning on adding a section to the repo's documentation featuring bots built using BootBot that are already in production for people to try out. I just found out that the amazing Game of Thrones chatbot GoTBot uses this framework, and I thought it'd be pretty cool to showcase other users.

So if you have a chatbot built with BootBot that you'd like to showcase on the repo, please drop a link in this issue. Thanks!

It would be good to find a way to do initialize Bootbot without needing app secret. I'm finding a way where I can put my code that uses Bootbot in github.

In Messenger bot setup it says nodejs needs a GET method for Facebook verification. I'm not sure if inside Bootbot constructor we can just setup an app.get('/webhook/', function (req, res)... method. Is this possible? Some samples use something like this:

app.get('/webhook/', function (req, res) {
    if (req.query['hub.verify_token'] === 'some_token') {
        res.send(req.query['hub.challenge'])
    }
    res.send('Error, wrong token')
})

First of all thanks for the awesome library!! Nicely written and architected!

Facebook's latest Webhook reference (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/webhook-reference/account-linking) supports account linking process to Link Messenger account to 3rd party accounts. It will be nice If Bootbot will allow account_linking type event to propagate.

This is a one line change, that I will be happy to submit, or feel free to add it or let me know if it does not make any sense.

In Bootbot.js in _initWebhook function:

if (event.optin) {
......
} else { console.log('Webhook received unknown event: ', event); }

before the final else add a new line

if (event.optin) {
....
} else if (event.read) {
this._handleEvent('read', event);
}else if (event.account_linking){ // Add this to support account linking
this._handleEvent('account_linking', event); // Add this to support account linking
} else {
console.log('Webhook received unknown event: ', event);
}

Thanks in advance

Sometimes when I send message in messenger, I receive this error

TypeError: Cannot read property 'filter' of undefined
    at Conversation.respond (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/bootbot/lib/Conversation.js:61:53)
    at _conversations.forEach.convo (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/bootbot/lib/BootBot.js:344:22)
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at BootBot._handleConversationResponse (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/bootbot/lib/BootBot.js:341:25)
    at BootBot._handleMessageEvent (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/bootbot/lib/BootBot.js:291:14)
    at entry.messaging.forEach (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/bootbot/lib/BootBot.js:377:20)
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at data.entry.forEach (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/bootbot/lib/BootBot.js:370:27)
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at app.post (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/bootbot/lib/BootBot.js:368:18)
    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
    at next (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:131:13)
    at Route.dispatch (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3)
    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
    at /Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:277:22
    at Function.process_params (/Users/iurisouz4/Documents/Julien/Projects/facebook_bootbot/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:330:12)

After that, I receive this error :

Error sending message: FetchError: request to https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/messages?access_token=EAAPBAL6ZBQEkBAMIblP8n6wISEjVJVaea4B54zghnwvy87ZAiCE1uexYSt8KipGqBQjzTeCG71hyWoB3wBZBHo33wX9ozH8x1cmgM7VxntkNy01ZABlpKp8Xp0zZC1vgxjIgFBzDQ58EzakeW0IMC58ZAnhGLbI0YKMfuRUKa4g2GUrzAOmlZAL failed, reason: connect ETIMEDOUT 31.13.73.1:443

But this second error don't appear everytime.

Actually I'm using ngrok for tunneling it. Do you think that is my problem? Or is it a bug? Because sometimes I have delay too, both in my project and in your examples.

Quick Replies have a limit of 20 characters. If you try to send a message with a quick reply that exceeds this limit, it will fail silently and won't send the message.

We should log a warning to the console when you try to send a quick reply with 20+ characters.

I am trying to use the api.ai webhook but i am getting an error.

Error: Couldn't validate the request signature.
at BootBot._verifyRequestSignature (F:\Bot\Plan_Arvana\node_modules\bootbot\lib\BootBot.js:445:13)
at F:\Bot\Plan_Arvana\node_modules\body-parser\lib\read.js:100:9
at invokeCallback (F:\Bot\Plan_Arvana\node_modules\raw-body\index.js:262:16)
at done (F:\Bot\Plan_Arvana\node_modules\raw-body\index.js:251:7)
at IncomingMessage.onEnd (F:\Bot\Plan_Arvana\node_modules\raw-body\index.js:307:7)
at emitNone (events.js:86:13)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:185:7)
at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:974:12)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:74:11)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)

anyhelp??

Hi there! I wrote a comment on the issue #24 thinking that my problem had some sort of connection with that bug but I was wrong.
Randomly whenever it wants, my app won't respond to any persistent menu button even for hours sometime, but will work on bot.on('message') callback.

My app is hosted on heroku and it seems that the problem doesn't respond to any logic, it happens really in a random way, there are no constants to consider (like the problem may appear at the resume of the heroku dyno from sleeping) and the bad news is that when this happen, my bot doesn't log anything, it's like Facebook is not calling the webhook in that situation.
So I don't even know how to debug this problem (probably it is caused by the library because other bots don't act like this).

I'll post the code ASAP and I must try to run it locally and tunnel it in order to consider or not heroku as a problem. Currently I'm running it with nodemon.
Sometimes refreshing the Facebook page on the browser and deleting the conversation on the android app solve the problems, sometimes not!

Ps: is it normal that the bot logs four or five POST requests for only one message sent?

Hello, I am a beginner in chatbots development and a friend recommended me the bootbot framework, I really liked it! I also found this CLI, but I am in doubt about how I will develop using it.

I need to run bootbot start every time I change a file?
I need to run bootbot start together with nodemon index.js?
I need to run set up my webhook URLs every time I start developing?

I'm asking these questions because I ran the project using both ways, but sometimes I felt a delay between the commands on my machine and noticed the bot working in Messenger, so I could not identify where the errors were and even know If there was any mistake or the project was not online.

And congratulations for the brilliant work! @Charca @pferdefleisch

Hi,
I think it would be great if there was an example for integrating wit.ai with bootbot, among other nlp service providers out there. Since ultimately most users would want to do more that give straight hard-coded responses from their bot. This would totally speed up things when you working with bootbot.
This is not entirely not limiting to wit, but luis and others out there

Docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/send-api-reference

I don't know when this was added but there's a notification_type attribute in the payload object that can be set to REGULAR, SILENT_PUSH or NO_PUSH. I think we should add this to the options object of the Send API method.s

Is quick replies feature available with this SDK ?

We need to refactor the _formatQuickReplies method to support an object with an open format. New types of quick replies format added since we implemented this methods are:

Location:

    {
        "content_type":"location",
    }

Text with Image:

    {
        "content_type":"text",
        "title":"Green",
        "payload":"DEVELOPER_DEFINED_PAYLOAD_FOR_PICKING_GREEN",
        "image_url":"http://petersfantastichats.com/img/green.png"
    }

But more formats will likely be added in the future so we should support whatever object the user sends (or auto-format like we do now if it's a string).

Facebook Docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/send-api-reference/quick-replies

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/send-api-reference/tags/

• SHIPPING_UPDATE
• RESERVATION_UPDATE
• ISSUE_RESOLUTION

Only Generic Templates and Text Messages support tags for now.

Hello,

When i execute this code , the program get stucked on the second recursion of getResponse().
Both someFunctionWhoGenerateResponse and generateGreeting function return valid string and work perfectly.

`
const bot = new BootBot({
accessToken: config.get('accessToken'),
verifyToken: config.get('verifyToken'),
appSecret: config.get('appSecret')
});

function getResponse(txt, convo) {
var rps = someFunctionWhoGenerateResponse(txt);
convo.sendTypingIndicator();
convo.ask(rps, (payload, convo, data) => {
convo.say("hum");
getResponse(payload.message.text, convo);
});
}

function sendGreeting(response, convo) {
var init = generateGreeting();
convo.ask(init, (payload, convo, data) => {
getResponse(payload.message.text, convo);
});
}

bot.hear('hello', (payload, chat) => {
chat.conversation((convo)=> {
sendGreeting(payload.message.text, convo);
});
});
`

I want to integrate LUIS with this framework, Is there any way to integrate NLP ?

Hi,
Since today, I receive the error in console: Error: Couldn't validate the request signature.

The bot continue to work, but I think that's not good and in my research, I didn't find a solution for this.
Thanks!

I'm using the bootbot-cli tool and the config names are using underscores, whereas bootbot is using camelCase. I was going to put a PR together, but wasn't sure which one should change.

LMKWYT.

Whenever I try to upload this code to heroku I get this error

Error R10 (Boot timeout) -> Web process failed to bind to $PORT within 60 seconds of launch

I solved this problem by changing this line of code from BootBot.js (line 25)
this.app.set('port', port || 5000)

to this
this.app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 5000)

then it work like magic, because now heroku will be able to bind to it

Support for List Template (docs)

Could be a copy of sendGenericTemplate that in addition to elements, also support top_element_style and buttons props.

I have made an app project on Facebook and am only seemingly able to find an App Secret and an App ID.

I still do not know where to find the following

1. access_token
2. verify_token

I know this is not a product feature of Bootbot but rather of Facebook... but I was not able to find this information in their documentation.

It would be really helpful to include pointers/directions in the Getting Started section!

Thanks for the help and the cool project man 👍

I planning to develop new bot, but I'm confused between using bootbot and botkit. Can you tell me the difference between 2 frameworks, so I can confident invest time on it?

Hi,
First, thanks for this Awesome library.
I'm using it and enjoying every moment.

I brought up a pretty nice project of my own.
I now ran into an issue where I have a list of items with buttons.
I want to define a postback so that when the user presses one of the buttons I will arrive at the same function and handle same just with different parameter.
Can you help to recommend how to easily solve this?

Should I use postback with regex? If so, how?

Thanks.

Currently, when a user clicks on a button the bot doesn't respond on the first time, the user should click twice to execute the postback action

bot: what is your name?
user: Charca
bot: and your age?
user: <click on About button>
bot: (do nothing)
user: <click on About button>
bot: I am a bot that helps you order food

How to close the conversation and execute the postback function when a user clicks on a button?

bot: what is your name?
user: Charca
bot: and your age?
user: <click on About button>
bot: I am a bot that helps you order food

Hi!!

I have a question about how to pass information from a button event to the the button subscription..

I modified the bootbot source code to work something out, but I would to confirm if there is another way before I make a pull request. It is something like:

chat.say({
    text: 'Some product here',
    buttons: [
        { type: 'postback', title: 'More info', payload: 'INFO:product_id' }
    ]
});

bot.on('postback:INFO', (payload, chat, data, args) => {
    console.log(args); // should print "product_id"
});

Let's say I have an event like this

bot.on('postback:HELP', (payload, chat) => {
  chat.say('need help');
});

how to trigger this event when for example the user says "help"

bot.hear('help', (payload, chat) => {
  // trigger "postback:HELP"
});

It's dead 💀

When I send templates sometimes it didn't show in chat and I don't know what is the reason.

But after a long time trying I discover a syntax error in my template or my elements has more than the maximum allowed elements. This errors are easy to solve but sometimes hard to find.

So is there any logs that I can see? or any debug event?

Hi,

From what I understand, bot.on and bot.hear are bypassed during a conversation.
Since callback from persistent menu are handled in bot.hear, how can we handle those events during a conversation ?

Hey @Charca , I saw your post about BootBot in the Bots Facebook group and after looking at the framework, I really want to try BootBot for my next Messenger bot. I've been using NLP services in most of my bots (specifically Wit.ai) however and would love it if BootBot had support for middleware to do additional processing when a message is received. I could use bot.on('message') to process messages with Wit.ai, but there wouldn't be a way to dispatch on these results using bot.hear(). My solution to this is allowing the BootBot to accept middleware, which are executed when a message is received and add a context which hear() can use to dispatch on. Here is some pseudocode of how it could be used:

'use strict';
const BootBot = require('bootbot');

const bot = new BootBot({
  accessToken: 'FB_ACCESS_TOKEN',
  verifyToken: 'FB_VERIFY_TOKEN',
  appSecret: 'FB_APP_SECRET'
});

// A middleware returns a promise that when resolved adds context
// that can be used to dispatch on hear messages
// hear callbacks are not executed until all middleware have been resolved
bot.addMiddleware((message) => fetchWitAiIntent(message).then(
  (witAiResult) => {witai: {intent: witAiResult.userIntent}}
));

// a predicate can be used to decide what response should be triggered by the bot
function userHungry(payload, middlewareContext) {
  return middlewareContext.witAi.intent === 'hungry';
}

// predicate used to determine if case should be executed
bot.hear(['food', userHungry], (payload, chat, middlewareContext) => {
  // Do something here.
});

I don't know if middleware is in the roadmap or not. Let me know what you think, and if you are fine with it I would love to implement it.

The example (and another nested persistent menu that I tried) gives the above error or a similar one. The implementation may be correct but I cannot seem to find the right way to use the new menu, right now. :P

for some reason my bot is not working with this framework. i have no reason why its not receiving messages?
the code i am using

`const BootBot = require('bootbot');

const bot = new BootBot({
accessToken: process.env.access_token,
verifyToken: process.env.verify_token,
appSecret: process.env.app_secret
});

bot.hear('ask me something', (payload, chat) => {
chat.conversation((convo) => {
    askName(convo);
});

const askName = (convo) => {
    convo.ask(`What's your name?`, (payload, convo) => {
        const text = payload.message.text;
        convo.set('name', text);
        convo.say(`Oh, your name is ${text}`).then(() => askFavoriteFood(convo));
    });
};

const askFavoriteFood = (convo) => {
    convo.ask(`What's your favorite food?`, (payload, convo) => {
        const text = payload.message.text;
        convo.set('food', text);
        convo.say(`Got it, your favorite food is ${text}`).then(() => sendSummary(convo));
    });
};

const sendSummary = (convo) => {
    convo.say(`Ok, here's what you told me about you:
      - Name: ${convo.get('name')}
      - Favorite Food: ${convo.get('food')}`);
  convo.end();
};
});
bot.start();`

any clues as to why it is not sending? any help would be appreciated.