facebook-chat-api

Emails is definitely a straightforward thing to do. SMS is also pretty possible. For really interesting use0cases like Messenger, the difficulty becomes more of collecting and storing user permissions. I recently came tooling like https://github.com/Schmavery/facebook-chat-api

I was asked to look into what the options are for building some kind of customer service chat bot for Facebook pages. Basically, the idea would be to take incoming requests directed in chat at a page or account, and fan them out to customer service reps that are active on some other IM platform. 1.) It looks like the XMPP integration that Facebook used to have is dead and buried at this point (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat) 2.) I found this NodeJS package (https://github.com/Schmavery/facebook-chat-api), which looks like it runs a headless browser to sign into Facebook and spoof Facebook into thinking that you are hitting them via their internal AJAX endpoints. This feels very fragile, but apparently it does work. 3.) I've seen some announcements that there is some sort of Messenger SDK which looks like it is currently rol

Nice work! I really like the idea that the web allows anyone to programmatically dig into the UI and extract data to do things. A friend and I actually made a whole API to interact with FB chat. You should check it out: https://github.com/Schmavery/facebook-chat-api. I'd really love to see what you can come up with, with some of the stuff we support.