Questions tagged [kik]

Mobile web browser with built-in messaging APIs

Kik is the first smartphone messenger with a built-in browser. Functioning like a regular mobile browser it provides extra functionality such as messaging, push notification, other social & devices APIs.

Home page: http://dev.kik.com/

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deploying kik bot to heroku not working

I've been trying to deploy my kik api to heroku, but it just isn't working. I've set up my procfile, my requirements.txt file, my runtime.txt file, and it shows up on my machine as running fine. However, when I open the kik app on my phone and try…
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BotBuilder for Node.js v3 & Microsoft Bot Framework: How do I remotely trigger the start of a new conversation with a user?

If I begin a dialog with a user where in the middle that user is sent a link that they are meant to open, how can I resume the conversation with the user after they have closed the webpage (which I control) the link lead to? They way I implemented…
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botframework channelData for kik results in error: 400 (Bad Request)

I'm using the Microsoft Botframework and the node.js version of botbuilder. My bot can send messages to kik (and other services) using the shared message fields - the ones that the botconnector allows for all messages. However, when I try to use…
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bot configuration on kik is not working as expected

I am trying to create an echo bot on kik. I have followed dev.kik.com, created a bot but then when i am trying to configure the bot, it does nothing(no message on kik or my middleware). set up: 1. I have echo bot implemented using nodejs and hosted…
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unable to send kik message on ios

I am un able to send a simple text message on kik, my message contains a plain URL, here is my sample code KikMessage *message = [KikMessage articleMessageWithTitle:@"some title" text:@"sometext" contentURL:[final_page objectForKey:@"gallery_url"]…
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Is there a way to check if a Kik user has authorized without potentially prompting them for authorization?

I am developing an app that matches users in Kik based on interests. Kik users can chat with a bot that I wrote, and then the bot links them to a page in the web app based on their interests. Kik provides us with this javascript (which I have…
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Open website in kik from other browsers

I want to send the users of my website (that already have kik installed) to see the website in the Kik browser. I know that kik://users/username/profile will direct to the user profile in the kik app. Is there something similar, but for websites…
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Kik is not enabled on Kik site

I recently wanted to test kik site development. I forked and cloned the kik starter-kit repository. I followed the setup, and wrote this simple script (the script runs fine without the if statement): if (kik.enabled) { var div =…
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Getting pages indexed in Kik browser

I'm having trouble getting pages to show up in the NEW tab and in the Optimized for Kik search results. All my pages have the required title, meta description, canonical and script tag served if the user-agent contains the string "kik". Here is an…
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What are the possible values for contentURL when using Kik iOS SDK?

I'm trying to send a message via Kik from my iOS app, and I use official Kik SDK for that. Specifically, the message should contain URL/link for the certain app on the Apple's app store. This is the code: KikMessage *message = [KikMessage…
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Trouble loading JW Player consistently on KiK

I'm having trouble getting JW Player (JW Platform) videos to load on KiK (and just mobile web, for that matter). Appears to work 100% of the time on desktop, but once inside the KiK app or even just in Safari and/or Chrome mobile web the videos will…
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Kik optimized card not showing in search results

We have created a Kik optimized page/card called Spotzot, deals near you. Its been a few days. But when i do a search on 'Spotzot' in the top on Android, the page still doesnt show up in the 'optimized for kik'. The page url is…
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Receive message directly to my app ,without going to KIK API

I am using KIK API to sent and receive message. I can able to receive message to my app, But it is received through KIK messagener APP only. I want to receive message directly to my app. On click of notification alert of the message. I want to…
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How can I deploy a Flask app containing a Kik bot to Heroku? (Python)

Silly newb question, it seems I can't use git to install content I need in the Heroku console, but my app/bot is dependent on content I normally use that for. I know very little about how git and pip work, or the right terminology to ask a question…
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Send video from kik bot

I am trying to write a simple kik bot to send videos from youtube. Started with https://github.com/kikinteractive/kik-bot-python-example Modified it this way: messages_to_send.append( VideoMessage( …
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