@broid/messenger

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Broid Messenger Integration

Broid Integrations is an open source project providing a suite of Activity Streams 2 libraries for unified communications among a vast number of communication platforms.

Connect your App to Multiple Messaging Channels with One OpenSource Language.

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Message types supported

Simple Image Video Buttons Location Activity Phone number

Phone number is platform limitation.

Getting started

Install

npm install --save @broid/messenger

Connect to Messenger

const BroidMessenger = require('@broid/messenger');

const messenger = new broidMessenger({
  token: "<oauth_token>",
  tokenSecret: "<verify_token>",
  http: {
    port: 8080,
    host: "0.0.0.0"
  }
});

messenger.connect()
  .subscribe({
    next: data => console.log(data),
    error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
    complete: () => console.log('complete'),
  });

Options available

name Type default Description
serviceID string random Arbitrary identifier of the running instance
logLevel string info Can be : fatal, error, warn, info, debug, trace
token string Your application token
tokenSecret string Your auth verify token (hub.verify_token)
consumerSecret string You App Secret to validate all requests
http object WebServer options (host, port)

Receive a message

messenger.listen()
  .subscribe({
    next: data => console.log(`Received message: ${data}`),
    error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
    complete: () => console.log('complete'),
  });

Buttons supported

mediaType Action types Content of value property
text/html web_url URL to be opened in the built-in browser.
application/vnd.geo+json location Ask for the user location.
audio/telephone-event phone_number Destination for a call in following format: "tel:123123123123".
postback Text of message which client will sent back as ordinary chat message.

Quick replies

To send quick replies, button need to contains mediaType value "text/plain"

Example:

{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "type": "Create",
  "generator": {
    "id": "f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a",
    "type": "Service",
    "name": "messenger"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "Note",
    "content": "Simple example with quickreplies",
    "attachment": [
      {
        "content": "Broid",
        "mediaType": "text/plain",
        "name": "broid",
        "type": "Button",
        "url": "broid_payload",
      }      
    ]
  },
  "to": {
    "type": "Person",
    "id": "1396343657196792"
  }
}

Sender Actions or Activity

content Action types
typing/on typing_on Turn typing indicators on
typing/off typing_off Turn typing indicators off
typing/off mark_seen Mark last message as read

Example of turning typing indicators on with

{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "type": "Create",
  "generator": {
    "id": "f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a",
    "type": "Service",
    "name": "messenger"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "Activity",
    "content": "typing/on",
  },
  "to": {
    "type": "Person",
    "id": "1396343657196792"
  }
}

Not supported yet

Action types Content of value property
element_share Open a share dialog in Messenger.
payment Opens a checkout dialog to enables purchases.
account_link Sync the user account.
account_unlink Un sync the user account.

Post a message

To send a message, the format should use the broid-schemas.

const formatted_message = {
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "type": "Create",
  "generator": {
    "id": "f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a",
    "type": "Service",
    "name": "messenger"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "Note",
    "content": "hello world"
  },
  "to": {
    "type": "Person",
    "id": "1396343657196792"
  }
};

messenger.send(formatted_message)
  .then(() => console.log("ok"))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

Examples of messages

You can find examples of sent and received messages at Broid-Schemas.

Contributing to Broid

See CONTRIBUTE.md

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Broid.ai

This project is licensed under the AGPL 3, which can be found here.

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