Original Coast Clothing Messenger Bot

Original Coast Clothing (OC) is a fictional clothing brand created to showcase key features of the Messenger Platform. OC leverages key features to deliver a great customer experience. Using this demo as inspiration, you can create a delightful messaging experience that leverages both automation and live customer support. We are also providing the open source code of the app and a guide to deploy the experience on your local environment or remote server.

Access the Messenger experience

See the Developer Documentations on this experience.

Setting up your Messenger App

Requirements

• Facebook Page: Will be used as the identity of your messaging experience. When people chat with your page. To create a new Page, visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.
• Facebook Developer Account: Required to create new apps, which are the core of any Facebook integration. You can create a new developer account by going to the Facebook Developers website and clicking the "Get Started" button.
• Facebook App: Contains the settings for your Messenger automation, including access tokens. To create a new app, visit your app dashboard.

Setup Steps

Before you begin, make sure you have completed all of the requirements listed above. At this point you should have a Page and a registered Facebook App.

Get the App id and App Secret

1. Go to your app Basic Settings, Find your app here
2. Save the App ID number and the App Secret

Grant Messenger access to your Facebook App

1. Go to your app Dashboard
2. Under Add Product find Messenger and click Set Up
3. Now you should be in the App Messenger Settings
4. Under Access Tokens, click on Edit Permissions
5. Select the desired page and allow Manage and access Page conversations in Messenger
6. Select the desired page and an access token should appear
7. Get the Page ID from the page access token by using the Access Token Debugger
8. In the section Built-In NLP, select your page and enable the toggle

Installation

Clone this repository on your local machine:

$ git clone git@github.com:fbsamples/original-coast-clothing.git
$ cd original-coast-clothing

You will need:

• Node 10.x or higher
• Localtunnel or remote server like Heroku

Usage

Using Local Tunnel

1. Install the dependencies

$ npm install

Alternatively, you can use Yarn:

$ yarn install

2. Install Local Tunnel

npm install -g localtunnel

Open a new terminal tab and request a tunnel to your local server with your preferred port

lt --port 3000

3. Rename the file .sample.env to .env

mv .sample.env .env

Edit the .env file to add all the values for your app and page. Then run your app locally using the built-in web server

4. Run your app locally using the built-in web server<

node app.js

You should now be able to access the application in your browser at http://localhost:3000

5. Configure your webhook subcription and set the Messenger profile

Use the VERIFY_TOKEN that you created in .env file and call the /profile endpoint like so:

http://localhost:3000/profile?mode=all&verify_token=verify-token

6. Test that your app setup is successful

Send a message to your Page from Facebook or in Messenger, if your webhook receives an event, you have fully set up your app! Voilà!

Using Heroku

1. Install the Heroku CLI

Download and install the Heroku CLI

2. Create an app from the CLI

git init
heroku apps:create
# Creating app... done, ⬢ mystic-wind-83
# Created http://mystic-wind-83.herokuapp.com/ | git@heroku.com:mystic-wind-83.git

3. Deploy the code

git add .
git commit -m "My first commit"
git push heroku master

4. Set your environment variables

In your Heroku App Dashboard https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/mystic-wind-83 set up the config vars following the comments in the file .sample.env

5. Configure your webhook subscription and set the Messenger profile

You should now be able to access the application. Use the VERIFY_TOKEN that you created as config vars and call the /profile endpoint like so:

http://mystic-wind-83.herokuapp.com/profile?mode=all&verify_token=verify-token

6. Test that your app setup is successful

Send a message to your Page from Facebook or in Messenger, if your webhook receives an event, you have fully set up your app! Voilà!

License

Sample Messenger App Original Coast Clothing is BSD licensed, as found in the LICENSE file.

See the CONTRIBUTING file for how to help out.