passy/tube-bot repository overview

⁠disruption-fb-bot

This is a hybrid written in JavaScript and PureScript (after I got too tired of stacktrace-less runtime errors), powered by a Haskell service, backed by a RethinkDB.

Check out passy/disruption-bot-deployment⁠ for an easy setup.

⁠Setup

$ npm install
$ npm run build
$ docker run rethink:2.3
# For prod-ish use.
$ npm run start
# For dev.
$ npm run watch
$ pulp -w build

• Copy config/default.json.example to config/default.json.
• Create a new Facebook App⁠.
• Copy the app secret from here and use it for your config.
• Create a new Facebook Page that you're bot will identify as.
• Find the Page ID in the page source (Ctrl+F for pageId). Yeah, this is ridiculous but I couldn't find another way to find it.
• Add "Messenger" as product. Generate a page access token from here, use it for the config.
• Set up the webhook. Generate a random long string as verification token. Use this in your config and enter it here.
• Use ngrok or localtunnel for testing to have an https-enabled way to link to your local webserver.
• Tick all the boxes in the popup for the messenger, even if we don't use most of them at the moment.
• Check docker ps for the host and port of your rethinkdb host.

⁠Development

Run these in separate terminal multiplexer panels:

$ pulp -w build
$ npm run watch