All questions related to chatbot development on the Facebook Messenger platform.
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Does my facebook messenger bot have to be approved and public to see the persistent menu?
I set my Persistent Menu and got a success message in Terminal, but I still can't see the menu.
on the facebook messenger API page it says this:
The page the bot is attached to must be published.
The bot must be set to "public" in the developer…
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Selling digital goods on Facebook Messenger Platform
I'm developing a FB Messenger bot which is technically a turn-based game. I want to sell in-game goods for real money through FB Payments or 3rd party service like XSola, for example.
But it seems like according to FB policy selling virtual good on…

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send the web page from a botkit bot to messenger webview
I have a mysql database and would like the user to provide information concerning his product(name, description,price) at once without asking by chatting. While reading I found it could be possible to show a user a form using messenger webview but I…

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the persistent menu of facebook messenger bot is not being update with the last changes
I am using botkit to build my bot. The first time I validated my webhook the persistent menu that was there was the one which came as example :
controller.api.thread_settings.menu([
{
"type":"postback",
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aidonsnous
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How to send an animated GIF in a card like this in Facebook messenger API?
I tried using the generic template, but it does not animate the GIF - this is needed for showing a 'Powered by Giphy' banner in the bottom of the card - like image below.
animated GIF received in a messenger card/bubble

Mahmoud Salama
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Error showing sending buttons as responses in Facebook messenger bot
I am building a Facebook messenger bot with api.ai integration. My api.ai agent is connected to a webhook - api.php. My challenge now is that I want to send a button response (formatted messages) to the bot through my webhook.
I followed this doc…

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Is there any way to integrate my Facebook Messenger bot with an ionic app?
I have made a facebook messenger bot using node.js and hosted on heroku. How can I integrate the bot with my ionic app, so that the bot runs on the app and not on facebook messenger. I am new to this, so please help me out. Any help would be…

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how to open link in a new tab in the messenger bot platform
there's 2 types of postback buttons :-> "url" and the normal postback
is there anyway to use the normal postback for opening a url
the reason for not using the "url" that my url is not static
so I have to make some manipulation on the url before…

Ahmed Mohsen
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No reply in conversation with mpociot/Botman (framework agnostic PHP library)
I looked on google and found botman and when I read the documentation, I found that I will do something great and cool with this framework
But when I did my first hello world application, I was faced with a problem is that my bot does not answer…

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How Can I Write a Django Model To Store Details of Users Who Communicate With My Messenger Bot
I'm currently building a Facebook messenger bot, and I wish to create a Django model to store users who communicate with my bot which is built in Django.
The USER API documentation states how to get a user's details, but I don't know how to…

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How to setup "Get Started" button
I'm working on a messenger bot and I have some trouble for the Get Started button...I work on node.js and I use Express framework. Here is what I did but still don't work:
function setupGetStartedButton(sender){
var messageData = {
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Yacine Oumarou
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How to get live location from Facebook messenger api chatbots
I'm building a Facebook messanger bot and I'm trying to get users live location but the "get location" button available on the api only gets the current (longitude, latitude)
Is there a way to get the live location after one permission?
And if not…
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What are the limitations of images in Facebook Messenger's Generic Templates?
Some images of mine, for example https://www.honda.co.th/th/jazz/assets/img/gallery/exterior/ext-05.jpg,
are not shown and I can't find the limitations in API documents.

ppp
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No notification triggered on Bot FB Messenger mobile device
When I use Conversations.SendToConversationAsync, the message arrives well on FB messenger but it not there no notification.
How I can make to triggers notification on mobile device for FB messenger?
Thank you

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How to show web views in messenger
I'm following this: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/webview/sharing
I've created custom classes :
[JsonObject(MemberSerialization.OptIn)]
public class elements
{
[JsonProperty]
public…

ed sheran
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