messenger-cli v0.1.2

messenger-cli

Send messages from a Facebook Messenger bot account CLI

Installation

npm install messenger-cli -g

Usage

Finding your user ID

Every user ID is different per Messenger app, this means that you need to find yours before you can start sending messages. I've created a simple webhook script that you can deploy to Heroku to find your ID.

Setting the access token

messenger -t <token>

It is required that you set your access token and default user ID to send a message.

Setting the default recipient

messenger -r <user id>

Typing out and remembering the user ID is annoying, you can set a default user ID by using the -r flag by itself.

Sending a message

messenger -r <user id> -m <message>

Sending a message to the default recipient

messenger -m <message>

Sending a message without the -r flag will be sent to the default user.

Use Cases

Command line

$ dd if=image.img of=/dev/rdisk1; messenger -m "Disk write complete"

$ wget ubuntu.com/image.img; messenger -m "Ubuntu finished downloaded"

$ make; make install; messenger -m "Software compiled and installed"

In software

Because it's CLI, it can be used in all projects.

# Python script checking a server's status
while True:
  if server_up() == False:
    os.system('messenger -m "The server has gone down"')
  time.sleep(900)

If you've found a great use case yourself, tweet me at @hstntn, I'm super interested.