Facebook Messenger Platform Thread Settings Helper

Simple helper to ease Thread Settings Configuration

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/thread-settings

Install

npm install fb-thread-settings -g

Options

greeting="text" (optional)

Lets you set the greeting text:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/thread-settings/greeting-text

getstarted (optional)

Enables the get started UI. The postback name is set to getstarted

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/thread-settings/get-started-button

menu=[{type: "postback", title: "Menu item titel", payload: "postback value"}]

Lets you set the persistent menu (NOT IMPLEMENTED YET)

Example Usage

fb-thread-settings --greeting=\"Your bot greeting text!\" --getstarted --token=*FB PAGE ACCESS TOKEN*

Link the postaback with the Microsoft Bot Framework

// answer get started postback created by our tool
bot.beginDialogAction('getstarted', '/getstarted');

// define the dialog itself
bot.dialog('/getstarted', 
[
    (session) => 
    {
        session.endDialog(`HI ${session.message.user.name}! Nice to meet you!`);
    }
]);

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License

MIT