api-ai-fb-webhook

This is a webhook implementation that connects Facebook Messenger Apps (chatbots) to API.ai.

This work was inspired by api.ai's example webhook at https://github.com/api-ai/api-ai-facebook.

Running locally (for testing purposes)

Software Dependencies:

1. Node v6.0.0
2. npm v3.8.6

To run locally do:

1. Clone this repository to your machine
2. Install node packages with npm install
3. Ensure the following environment variables are set:
   • APIAI_ACCESS_TOKEN="Your API.AI client access token"
   • FB_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN="Your Facebook Page Access Token"
   • FB_VERIFY_TOKEN="Your Facebook Verify Token"
4. Start app with npm start

Deploy with Docker

You can either deploy with a pre-built image or buid one yourself. To use Hevlia.io's pre-build image do:

docker run -it --name api_ai_fb_webhook \
           -p <your_desired_port_here>:5000 \
           -e APIAI_ACCESS_TOKEN="Your API.AI client access token" \
           -e FB_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN="Your Facebook Page Access Token" \
           -e FB_VERIFY_TOKEN="Your Facebook Verify Token" \
           -e APIAI_LANG="en" \
           helvia/api_ai_fb:latest

If you want to build a new container do:

1. Clone this repository to your machine
2. Build with the following docker build -t api-ai--fb-facebook . from within the project directory.
3. Run with : bash docker run -it --name api_ai_fb_webhook -p <your_desired_port_here>:5000 -e APIAI_ACCESS_TOKEN="API.AI client access token" -e FB_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN="Your Facebook Page Access Token" -e FB_VERIFY_TOKEN="your Facebook Verify Token" -e APIAI_LANG="en" helvia/api-ai--fb-facebook:latest