I'm getting a weird error while configuring welcome message for my Messenger bot. I've been using the same code (as shown below) and it has just been working fine until last night. I tried it with both cURL and Postman. Neither of them works.
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
"setting_type":"call_to_actions",
"thread_state":"new_thread",
"call_to_actions":[
{
"message":{
"text":"Welcome to My Company!"
}
}
]
}' "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/<PAGE_ID>/thread_settings?access_token=<PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN>"
Error message when executing the code above:
{"error":{"message":"(#100) Invalid keys \"message\" were found in param \"call_to_actions[0]\".","type":"OAuthException","code":100,"fbtrace_id":"Hn42Wa+hapI"}}%
I can confirm both PAGE_ID and PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN are correct as trying to delete the welcome message with the following code works fine.
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
"setting_type":"call_to_actions",
"thread_state":"new_thread",
"call_to_actions":[
{
"message":{
"text":"Welcome to My Company!"
}
}
]
}' "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/<PAGE_ID>/thread_settings?access_token=<PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN>"
Also, the code I'm using is exactly the same as shown on the Facebook official API doc. I don't understand why it's saying "message" is not a valid key. Is anyone experiencing the same problem? Did Facebook change their api?
Any help will be much appreciated!
The docs are now updated, you need to define your payload in payload
parameter now (a UTF-8 encoded string), eg:
"call_to_actions":[
{
"payload":"USER_DEFINED_PAYLOAD"
}
]
Docs updated:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/thread-settings/greeting-text
Example:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
"setting_type":"greeting",
"greeting":{
"text":"Welcome to My Company!"
}
}' "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/thread_settings?access_token=PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN"
I get the same issue and fix it.
I think your json of request is
let messageData = {
"setting_type":"call_to_actions",
"thread_state":"new_thread",
"call_to_actions":[
{
"payload":"welcome_payload"
}
]
}
request({
url: 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/thread_settings',
qs: {access_token:token},
method: 'POST',
json: {
messageData
}
}
but it will not work and log will say you have no "setting_type" = =a
try this one
request({
url: 'https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/thread_settings',
qs: {access_token:token},
method: 'POST',
json: {
setting_type:"call_to_actions",
thread_state:"new_thread",
call_to_actions:[
{
"payload":"welcome_payload"
}
]
}
}
it work for me.
This error was due to an API change.
New call:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
"setting_type":"call_to_actions",
"thread_state":"new_thread",
"call_to_actions":[{
"payload":"START"
}]
}' "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/<PAGE_ID>/thread_settings?access_token=<PAGE_TOKEN>"
Just add a payload like {"payload":"START"}
If a user press the "Getting started" button, you receive this payload in your messageHandler (webhook). Check if $incomingMessage == "START"
and send back your structured message, or whatever you want.
Messages like before are not supported anymore.
Bug report: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/1751749508372552/