Messenger Workshop @ #NTW2018

[profnandaa]

Nairobi Tech Week | 2018 - http://nairobitechweek.com/

Workshop at Sir Thomas More, Room B02
4.00 - 5.00 PM
Presenter: yours truly

• Get the presentation here
• See set up instructions here

Any questions or further material will be provided in the comments below.

Short link to this: bit.ly/messenger-at-ntw-2018

[Antoh1]

Good stuff, Its been an awesome session on bots

[dmithamo]

Does creating a messenger bot require me to develop my own security apparatus, or is that handled by Facebook Messenger? That is, is security my concern, or Facebook Messenger's concern?

[iamukasa]

Python tutorials and demos https://github.com/conbus/fbmq/tree/master/example
moving this twitter bot there too https://twitter.com/shtaki_ke/media
Source Code https://github.com/iamukasa/fast-style-transfer-1

[JuneMuoti]

loving this

[CharlesKitonga]

is it possible to integrate facebook bot with laravel?

[Kollynce]

enjoyed this session

[danuluma]

I deleted facebook......can I still create bots without a facebook account?

[Benedict-Mambo]

@danuluma No. You need to have a facebook account and a page for that matter. So, go ahead and create a facebook account to create your bot.

[Benedict-Mambo]

@Kyerloh yes, just create your app with laravel, and have a webhook to communicate with messenger.

[profnandaa]

@jamienjoroge - Moving your question here:

Hey Was wondering if after the user interacts and gives the permission to allow the bot to conversate could the bot still message the user regularly without the user actually engaging with the bot.

Good q, see the details here - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/policy/policy-overview#standard_messaging TL;DR -

"Businesses and developers using the Send API have up to 24 hours to respond to a message sent by a person in Messenger when using standard messaging. A bot may also send one additional message after the 24-hour time limit has expired. The 24-hour limit is refreshed each time a person responds to a business through one of the eligible actions listed in Messenger Conversation Entry Points. This is commonly referred to as the '24 + 1 policy'."

Hope this answers?

[Benedict-Mambo]

@dmithamo for security 101, just make sure your app is secure :)

[CharlesKitonga]

@Benedict-Mambo Thank you... will do that

[Kollynce]

Does this means that the Bots can only be implemented on Facebook and not any other site

[profnandaa]

Resharing @MainaCal 's post #3 :

consider tranlstion from online sites like google translate and localizer
localizer at https://bit.ly/2qKNPug
google translate on telegram at https://bit.ly/2qGZTwG

[Benedict-Mambo]

@Kollynce No, you can build your bot on any service/site, not just facebook.

It depends on the use case / problem you are trying to solve. Don't limit yourself to Facbook :)

[Kollynce]

@Benedict-Mambo thanks for that

[profnandaa]

@Kyerloh

is it possible to integrate facebook bot with laravel?

Not a good idea though, it will be more of an overkill. I'll advise that you use Laravel (and more so Lumen) for your API that the bot will be interacting with. For your bot, choose a light-weight framework. There's none for PHP that I've worked with, but I will always recommend bootbot for Node.js (what we're using here). I can look up one for PHP, if you prefer to keep your language unified across your backends.

To demonstrate this setup, here is a sketch:

Let me explain:

• You can build a basic backend that will power your bot (mainly acting like a controller), but leave the real logic in your API backend (perhaps built with Laravel / Lumen)
• The advantage of this is that you will have one API backend to serve both your bot and other web apps (and or mobile apps), etc.
  I've used this architecture before and has worked well for me. My bot on Node.js and API backend of Lumen.

[DavidNgugi]

You can use Botman for PHP

[DavidNgugi]

Here's the link https://github.com/botman/botman

[profnandaa]

@DavidNgugi - thanks for sharing! The power of crowd-sourcing right there 👍 Let me check it out.

UPDATE - checked it out, looks like the real deal! Some awesome stuff! 🔥

[Benedict-Mambo]

@profnandaa thanks for your open explanation about use of Laravel very well understood. 👍

[josephwambura]

Following slowly down here Dec, 2018... lemme try it

[profnandaa]

Let me know 👍

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