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facebook-messenger-Ecommerce-chat-bot

eCommerce JavaScript

facebook-messenger-Ecommerce-chat-bot

An online store chatbot uses Facebook Messenger Platform, building from scratch with Node.js Platform.

Video demo the bot: https://youtu.be/4zkR4nzmqA4

What can this bot do:

  • Showing categories
  • Looking up order (with a custom web view from node.js server)
  • Talking with “real” live agent (if the user request)
  • Turn on/off the bot
  • Restart the conversation.

How to setup this bot for your own Facebook Page without any cost ?

1. Clone this project

2. Create a Heroku app

3. Deploy this project to your Heroku app

4. Create a Facebook Developer App, A Facebook Page (to embed this bot)

5. Going to Facebook Developer App, add the Messenger Product, generate FACEBOOK_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN, config the webhook (default, the url for the webhook is: /webhook ) .

Remember to update the config variables on Heroku as well.

6. Enable the option: Build-in NLP on Messenger Product (Natural Laguage Processing) to make the bot understand the sentences with the meaning “greetings”, “thanks” and “bye”.

7. Enjoy!

Several errors you may encouter:

  • Forgetting to update the environment variables on Heroku : go to “Settings option”, then “Reveal Congfig Var”
  • The bot only works with the admin account, doesn’t reply the others Facebook accounts: need to be approved the “pages_messaging” permission.
    For detail, watch this video: https://youtu.be/0VRQRHnrGxg

Wonder how to build this bot and want to make it yourself, watch my video to build this bot from scratch: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNOjHC_BXrfB8DcOCHtKPWPMl4t9PG5cI

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