Pocket-Bot

Save articles on Facebook to Pocket by sending them to a Messenger Chatbot.

Motivation

Read this article

To deploy your own bot, follow thoses steps:

Heroku

Get an account on Heroku, and create a NodeJS application. Download the Heroku CLI as well.

Also add the "mLab MongoDB" plugin to have a free Mongo database that we will use to store the users.

Fork this repository and link it to your Heroku app. From the command line type:

heroku git:remote -a my-app

Pocket API Key

Go to http://getpocket.com/developers, and request an API key (you only need WRITE access currently but can request READ access to provide further functionalities through the bot in the future)

Facebook Token for the Bot

Follow the procedure here to create a Facebook page and associate a bot to it. Then get the token, the secret, and come up with a verify phrase.

Heroku Environment Variables

Go to your Heroku Dashboard and go to your apps Settings to set the environment variables:

POCKET_BOT_FACEBOOK_TOKEN='XX'
POCKET_BOT_FACEBOOK_SECRET='XX'
POCKET_BOT_FACEBOOK_VERIFY='XX'
POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY='XX'
HOSTNAME='XX'

Deploy

git push heroku master

Development

Copy the environment variable file

cp .env.dist .env

Update in your .env the variables that you got from Pocket, Facebook, MongoLabs and Heroku.

npm install

node index.js