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Allow sharing content from your app into Facebook Messenger.

Any app can let people send images, videos, GIFs and sound clips through Facebook Messenger. When someone sends something with your app, their friend will see your app's name and logo. Apps that follow our guidelines and policies, and submit for App Review, can optimize their integration with Messenger.

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What is the technology behind wechat, whatsapp and other messenger apps?

I am eager to know about the architecture of different real-time messenger apps. Are they using any generic protocol/architecture?
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Can you use Facebook "Test Users" to test a Messenger Bot?

I'm currently trying to make a Messenger Bot with the Messenger Platform. I have a Facebook page, app, everything set up, it currently works when I (an admin for the app) message it. So, I made a few test users to test it with more users. But,…
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Viber messenger API

I'm looking for a library to do requests to Viber messenger server. I need to: send messages to users; check sent messages delivery status; check that a user has Viber account. I know that Viber has no open API for developers, but maybe someone…
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Weird error with Facebook Messenger Platform/bot Welcome Confugration

I'm getting a weird error while configuring welcome message for my Messenger bot. I've been using the same code (as shown below) and it has just been working fine until last night. I tried it with both cURL and Postman. Neither of them works. curl…
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Any Way Around Facebook Bots Button Template Limit?

It appears (undocumented) that for a button message type in the Facebook Bots chat system, there is a max of 3 buttons. This seems arbitrary and limiting. Does anyone know if there is a way to have more than 3 buttons? To be clear, I'm referring to…
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Facebook Messenger bot not sending messages in order

I'm playing around with building a simple Facebook Messenger chatbot and I'm having trouble sending messages in sequence. In the example above, it should have printed "Hello!", "1", "2", "3" in order. I'm currently following the Facebook docs found…
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Generic template image_url does not load in Messenger - Facebook Messenger Platform

I am using the Facebook Messenger Platform to create a generic template. I am currently using ngrok to test locally, and the image_url I input for the generic template never shows in Messenger. The generic template is sent, and the image is just…
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Facebook Messenger Bot - How to disable bot and allow human to chat

so this is something I've been trying to think through for about 16 hours. I am coding with PHP / CuRl / etc - the bot works and everything is fine. My current issue is figuring out how to disable the bot and allow a human to begin chatting with the…
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Open Facebook Messenger from iOS app

Does anyone know how can I open the Facebook messenger application with a pre-filled text? For example, to open the messenger app at a specified user, you can write the following: NSURL *fbURL = [NSURL…
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Deep Link from messenger App to my app is not working?

I’m trying to setup an universal link to my app that my users can share on facebook. I can make it work on email, sms, browser, as follows: 1- If the user don’t have the app, it redirects to a custom URL or the AppStore 2- If the user have the app,…
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Facebook messenger checkbox plugin is hidden

I'm trying to implement the new Facebook Checkbox plugin in a form but in a weird way I can't get it showing on the screen. So I don't get errors clientside but Iframe is hidden. Here's an simplified example of the code: