hubot-line-messaging

This is a Hubot adapter for Line Messaging API and it supports Line Business Center. This adapter currently only supports Reply Message API, but will include more features recently.

Installation

Getting started

Because it is an adapter of hubot, first you must install hubot on your device. Follow the guidance on hubot official document.

Then install this adapter to your project by running

npm install --save hubot-line-messaging

Configuration

There are several environment variables need to be set in your Node.js server

HUBOT_NAME=${your_bot_name}
HUBOT_LINE_TOKEN=${your_token}
LINE_CHANNEL_SECRET=${CHANNEL_SECRET}
# optional 
# If USER_PROFILE is SET (!==0), you can get additional user profile in res.message.user 
USER_PROFILE=${USER_PROFILE}

If you are using Heroku, the command will be

heroku config:add HUBOT_NAME=${your_bot_name}
heroku config:add HUBOT_LINE_TOKEN=${your_token}
heroku config:add LINE_CHANNEL_SECRET=${CHANNEL_SECRET}
# optional 
heroku config:add USER_PROFILE=${USER_PROFILE}

Start robot

Once you configure environment variables on your system well, start your robot as bellow

./bin/hubot -a line-messaging

Usage

Hello World

Create a new file - robot.js under your ./scripts/ folder. Add customize scipts as following in your robot.js

"use strict";
 
module.exports = function(robot){
    robot.respond(/hello/i, function(res){
        res.reply('world');
    });
}

Restart your robot, then send a message - @botname hello in line application. After that, you will receive a response - world in line application.

Notice that we support only REPLY MESSAGE API for now, so use res.reply() or res.emote() only. res.send() will reserved until PUSH MESSAGE API is officially supported.

Listen Message from LINE

Text Message

As mentioned in Hubot's document, if your robot's name is BB8, wake it up like below:

• @BB8 ${keyword}
• BB8, ${keyword}
• BB8: ${keyword}

It won't response unless you include robot's name in the beginning of your message.

Complicated Message

Types of supports:

• ImageMessage
• VideoMessage
• AudioMessage
• LocationMessage
• StickerMessage

The following is an example of how to listen and respond to complicated message types (sticker, location, image, ...etc).

var StickerMessage = require('hubot-line-messaging').StickerMessage
 
// Echo the same sticker to Line
// Customize a matcher for specific message type
var matcher = function(message){
    // Not implement listener, so should CatchAllMessage.message
    var stickerMsg = message.message;
    if (stickerMsg && stickerMsg.type && stickerMsg.type === 'sticker'){
        if(stickerMsg.stickerId === '1'){
            return true
        }
    }
    return false;
}
robot.listen(matcher, function(res){
    var stickerMessage = res.message.message;
    // This line is necessary to prevent error
    res.envelope.message = stickerMessage;
    var sticker = new SendSticker(stickerMessage.stickerId, stickerMessage.packageId);
    res.reply(sticker);
});

Respond Basic Message to LINE

There are several message type which is defined in LINE's document. You can require one of those like below

var LineMessaging = require('hubot-line-messaging')
var SendSticker = LineMessaging.SendSticker
var SendLocation = LineMessaging.SendLocation
var SendImage = LineMessaging.SendImage
var SendVideo = LineMessaging.SendVideo
var SendAudio = LineMessaging.SendAudios
var SendText = LineMessaging.SendText

Text

Text is a common message type, can call it in two way.

// Generate a Text object
let text1 = new SendText('This is a text')
let text2 = new SendText('Second Line')
 
// Reply message
res.reply(text1, text2);

or

// Simply using string
res.reply('This is a text', 'Second Line');

Image

let originalContentUrl = 'https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=45&txt=480%C3%97480&w=480&h=480';
let previewImageUrl = 'https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=23&txt=240%C3%97240&w=240&h=240';
 
// Reply message
res.reply(new SendImage(originalContentUrl, previewImageUrl));

Video

let originalContentUrl = 'https://example.com/original.mp4'
let previewImageUrl = 'https://example.com/preview.jpg'
 
// Reply message
res.reply(new SendVideo(originalContentUrl, previewImageUrl));

Audio

let originalContentUrl = 'https://example.com/original.m4a'
let duration = 240000
 
// Reply message
res.reply(new SendAudio(originalContentUrl, previewImageUrl));

Location

// title, address, latitude, longitude
let location =
    new SendLocation(
        'ＬＩＮＥ',
        '〒150-0002 東京都渋谷区渋谷２丁目２１−１',
        35.65910807942215,
        139.70372892916203
    );
 
// Send it as common way
res.reply(location);

Sticker

// stickerId, packageId
let sticker = new SendSticker('1', '1');
 
// Send it as common way
res.emote(sticker);

Respond Template Message to LINE

Template message is composed of template and actions.

Mix Template and Actions

Template includes buttons, confirm and carousel. Actions includes postback, message and uri.

Buttons

let msg = BuildTemplateMessage
    .init('this is a template msg')
    .buttons({
        thumbnailImageUrl: 'https://github.com/puresmash/chatting-robot/blob/develope/docs/template.jpg?raw=true',
        title: 'Template Message',
        text: 'Let me google for you'
    })
    .action('uri', {
        label: 'Open Google',
        uri: 'https://www.google.com.tw/'
    })
    .action('uri', {
        label: 'Adapter Link',
        uri: 'https://github.com/puresmash/hubot-line-messaging'
    })
    .build();
res.reply(msg);

Confirm

let msg = BuildTemplateMessage
    .init('this is a confirm msg')
    .confirm({
        text: 'confirm?'
    })
    .action('uri', {
        label: 'OK',
        uri: 'https://www.google.com.tw/search?q=ok'
    })
    .action('message', {
        label: 'Cancel',
        text: 'cancel request'
    })
    .build();
res.reply(msg);

Carousel

let msg = BuildTemplateMessage
    .init('this is a carousel msg')
    .carousel({
        thumbnailImageUrl: 'https://github.com/puresmash/chatting-robot/blob/develope/docs/template.jpg?raw=true',
        title: 'Carousel Message 1',
        text: 'text1'
    })
    .action('uri', {
        label: 'Open Google',
        uri: 'https://www.google.com.tw/'
    })
    .carousel({
        thumbnailImageUrl: 'https://github.com/puresmash/chatting-robot/blob/develope/docs/carousel.jpg?raw=true',
        title: 'Carousel Message 2',
        text: 'text2'
    })
    .action('uri', {
        label: 'Adapter Link',
        uri: 'https://github.com/puresmash/hubot-line-messaging'
    })
    .build();
res.reply(msg);

Remark

Debug on Heroku

heroku config:add HUBOT_LOG_LEVEL=debug
heroku logs --tail