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https://t.me/libretaxi_bot
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interface the bot with Facebook messenger #442

Closed ericfont closed 7 years ago

ericfont commented 7 years ago

Since LibreTaxi is really just a bot, I would think it would be straightforward to allow the bot to also interface with Facebook Messenger, which also supports bots: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2016/04/12/bots-for-messenger/

There are many people already on facebook, and there is a tendency of people to be wary of installing extra apps, so could increase userbase by reaching them where they are already hanging out.

ro31337 commented 7 years ago

merged with https://github.com/ro31337/libretaxi/issues/453

bitcoinvsalts commented 7 years ago

+1

ro31337 commented 7 years ago

@jsappme I started working on FB interface. ETA is unknown, hopefully soon. Also, I appreciate if you can say few words about why +1 and why it's important for you.

bitcoinvsalts commented 7 years ago

@ro31337 great news. FB Messenger is a lot more popular than Telegram, a lots of people do not want to install another app to chat (specially with a chatbot).

bitcoinvsalts commented 7 years ago

@ro31337 how can I help in the dev of this new feature?

ro31337 commented 7 years ago

Implement 8 handlers, similar to these: https://github.com/ro31337/libretaxi/tree/master/src/response-handlers/telegram

Use facebook native API, Broid (mentioned in other story) has bad support of some required features. Don't care about facebook setup code too much - it's not very important at the moment, but anyway, try to keep it nice and shiny. We need handlers first. When they're done, I can jump in into your changes and do the rest.

At the same time I'll work on FB handlers in parallel (however, I have something else to do). So hopefully you'll be able to deliver it first. If not - you'll have a great experience and hopefully fun with Facebook API :)

ro31337 commented 7 years ago

Also, on your way you can share your code time to time and ping me. I can take a look. I would share my code, but it's not shareable at the moment, too much random stuff. However, I will push my branch with this feature (or even with my minor changes related to this feature) when I can.