I am creating an application where I need a user to be able to grant us access to their facebook page so that all incoming messages can flow through our application (as well as outgoing).
I have this all working correctly, but facebook will not approve my app due to the facebook permission pages_messaging and them "not receiving a response from my bot" (I have been denied three straight times). What am I doing wrong here? We are not using bots, do I even need the pages_messaging permission (I am using their webhook to get incoming page messages, and graph api to send outgoing)?
When submitting app, pages_messaging permission says:
Please provide the page that can be used to test this bot. Make sure the bot is properly connected and functional, otherwise your submission may be rejected.
Here is facebook's feedback from my submission (denied multiple times):
Thank you for your submission. We tested the messenger experience on your associated page and received no response from your messenger bot. Please resubmit with the new, improved version of your bot.
You got to create a bot to use the messaging API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/implementation
To just read/send messages:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.6/conversation/messages
You can use the /pageID/conversations endpoint to retrieve all conversations your page has had with FB profiles.
Next you can read/post to the /conversationID/messages endpoint to read/respond to a person.
And you can even subscribe to the conversations field for pages with webhooks.
You will need a page admin's page access token that has the read_page_mailboxes permission scope to set up the subscription, and to read/reply to messages.
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I am creating an application using which users will manage their Facebook messenger and post comments on a page. I have implemented the Facebook Login which asks the user for page_messaging permission. I have also configured the webhook and it is working fine.
Now, Facebook documentation states the following
Generate a Page access token to start using the platform APIs. You
will be able to generate an access token for a Page if:
You are one of the Page admins, and
The app has been granted the Page's permission to manage and access Page conversations in Messenger.
So, how can I make my webhook listen to the messages of the page that have granted me permission to manage and access the page? I have looked for hours trying to find this in the documentation. No Luck!
I have a chat bot linked from Dialogflow to Facebook Messenger. Everything is set up but now it just needs pages_messaging permission approval from the Facebook team. I have submitted the request and the Facebook team messaged me this:
This is a test message from the Facebook team. Please respond from your app within 2 days to confirm that the integration is functioning.
However, the Facebook team test account is not able to receive messages from my app due to the app not having the pages_messaging permission in the first place. What should I do now? Will they not accept my request? Please help, I am new to this. Thanks!
I went through the documentation for creating a chatbot for messenger platform.
All I find there, I need a server, which in the case used as a service for the Facebook platform.
The server also validates the webhook from facebook app.
Now I see, for a chatbot, I need a facebook app, webhook server and definitely a facebook page.
Then I find an application Flow XO, where I only put the page name and the bot is ready.
My question is, how they(flow.xo) can communicate facebook page without a Facebook app(appId, appSecret) and webHook.
My question is, how they can communicate facebook page without a Facebook app(appId, appSecret) and webHook.
They can’t.
They use their server and their app to communicate with the API, on behalf of the users that grant them access to their pages, by providing the necessary permissions when they log in to that app.
Facebook allows to create a Facebook App which integrates multiple chatbots. At Amio, we ask you for permission using Facebook OAuth. When you give us these permissions we send and receive message on your behalf. This allows you to create a chatbot using Amio API without need of creating a Facebook App.
Facebook Page is always needed as this is the entry point of users interacting with your bot. You can check Amio documentation for more detail.
When using facebook apps like chatfuel and manychat (which are bot creation platforms), these apps request permissions that allow them to manage my pages and send messages.
I want to create a similar app that allows users to send messages from their pages through my app, but I can't find how to request such permissions in Facebook's documentation.
You need to be given the administrator role for each Page, then connect your app to the Page and generate a page-scoped token for each one.
In this Facebook docs page we learn how to create a bot for receiving and sending messages through a Facebook Page.
Is there a way to connect between a webhook and a page programatically and not manually?
If my product is a generic bot for Facebook Messenger, I want to be able to register him to pages without asking my clients to grant me an admin permission to their Facebook Page.
In case anyone else still has this problem, in addition to using the app subscription edge and the page subscription edge, you also need the following permissions: manage_pages, pages_messaging, read_page_mailboxes. The page was not showing up for me in the app > messenger settings until I added the read_page_mailboxes permission.