23.facebook-events

Facebook Events

Bot Framework v4 facebook events bot sample

This bot has been created using Bot Framework, is shows how to integrate and consume Facebook specific payloads, such as postbacks, quick replies and opt-in events. Since Bot Framework supports multiple Facebook pages for a single bot, we also show how to know the page to which the message was sent, so developers can have custom behavior per page.

More information about configuring a bot for Facebook Messenger can be found here: Connect a bot to Facebook

Prerequisites

• Enable Facebook Channel The final step to test Facebook-specific features is to publish your bot for the Facebook channel. The Bot Framework makes this very easy, and the detailed steps are explained in the Bot Framework Channel Documentation.

To try this sample

• Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/botbuilder-samples.git

• In a terminal, navigate to botbuilder-samples\samples\python\23.facebook-events folder
• Activate your desired virtual environment
• In the terminal, type pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run your bot with python app.py

Testing the bot using Bot Framework Emulator

Microsoft Bot Framework Emulator is a desktop application that allows bot developers to test and debug their bots on localhost or running remotely through a tunnel.

• Install the latest Bot Framework Emulator from here

Connect to the bot using Bot Framework Emulator

• Launch Bot Framework Emulator
• File -> Open Bot
• Enter a Bot URL of http://localhost:3978/api/messages

Deploy this bot to Azure

To learn more about deploying a bot to Azure, see Deploy your bot to Azure for a complete list of deployment instructions.

Further reading

• Bot Framework Documentation
• Bot Basics
• Facebook Quick Replies
• Facebook PostBack
• Facebook Opt-in
• Activity processing
• Azure Bot Service Introduction
• Azure Bot Service Documentation
• Azure CLI
• Azure Portal
• Channels and Bot Connector Service