Replacement for Facebook Chat API in v2.0? [closed]

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Facebook will be deprecating their chat API that currently allows sending chat messages via XMPP.

My company is currently working on a product that may take advantage of the chat API and I would like to know more about the future of this service.

Will the current XMPP-based chat API be replaced with a new version next year? Or is it going to be obsolete?

Any input on this will be appreciated!

Inarticulate answered 2/6, 2014 at 7:0 Comment(7)

There are no information about something new. And I would say it would be pretty strange to deprecate something without announcing something new if that was the plan. I wouldn't count on something new coming – Floeter 2/6, 2014 at 7:27

Thanks WizKid. I know that XMPP has been replaced with MQTT in the new Facebook messenger app. Could that be the reason the chat API is being deprecated or are there other (non-technical) reasons? – Inarticulate 2/6, 2014 at 7:43

I don't know why XMPP was deprecated and I have no more info than you why it was deprecated. Just my personal view is that if they planed to replace it I would expect them to announce it at the same time as deprecating XMPP or wait and deprecate XMPP until they announced the replacement. – Floeter 2/6, 2014 at 16:13

The only way to access the Facebook chat right now would be to use a headless browser. – Snafu 23/12, 2014 at 4:19

Sorry, has nothing to do with the technical details, but my opinion. I'm done with facebook. Their Graph API was always a joke, XMPP was the one thing that made sense, and it's no longer available. I've reached the point, when I don't even care how many friends are on just their platform, I'm abandoning it professionaly and personally as well. – Persimmon 10/1, 2016 at 19:18

@Persimmon +1. Let it go... Facebook is done. Serious people use Google Talk anyway... the only sane company out there. Since Citizens United, you vote with money, messenger usage for Facebook IS MONEY (they probably sell the data, or analytics on it, to NSA anyway) unless you use OTR with an XMPP compatible client. – Cottage 6/6, 2016 at 16:33

Moderator note: This post is under discussion on Meta, and is locked to mitigate the meta effect. – Brumal 22/9, 2016 at 8:56

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The Facebook XMPP Chat API has been deprecated in v2.0 and above meaning it won't be available after April 30th 2015.

Facebook have not announced any replacement for this API, so I'd recommend not building a product which requires this functionality.

Ehrsam answered 19/8, 2014 at 17:17 Comment(0)

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The closest thing that I've found so far is this endpoint:

GET /v2.2/me/inbox

(https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.2/user/inbox)

This allows you to read all the messages. You will need a read_mailbox permission. But you can't publish, update nor delete.

Bacolod answered 23/1, 2015 at 21:28 Comment(1)

This "refers to a feature that was removed after Graph API v2.4." – Amatory 13/5, 2016 at 17:0

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While it's not a fully fledged API or anything, there's a libpurple (pidgin) plugin that I've confirmed works with the new Facebook chat restrictions: https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook

Unglue answered 21/7, 2015 at 14:11 Comment(1)

can this be used to get past messages ? – Bioscope 14/5, 2016 at 22:45

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Messanger API is here (can't post a comment yet) info: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2015/03/25/introducing-messenger-platform-and-businesses-on-messenger/
api: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger

however I didn't find anything that would be useful as a replacement for chat API

Torquemada answered 29/3, 2015 at 18:42 Comment(1)

I don't see any information about Windows API, only Android/Apple mobile app development. There's a Windows 8.1 app; but, it's basically Facebook webpage in full screen. – Decussate 8/4, 2015 at 17:11

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A couple days ago, Facebook just announced their new Messenger Platform

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform.

As for now, it can only be used with Facebook Page and use Webhooks as way to communicate with our app. It also able to send message with recipient's id or phone number if the recipient authorized it.

Endow answered 20/4, 2016 at 8:56 Comment(0)

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This is not about XMPP, but my problem was to use the chat without accessing the browser and this node package solved it. It tricks facebook into believing that you are getting and posting from their site. Pretty cool!

Keene answered 23/11, 2015 at 10:47 Comment(0)

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Since a few months, there's a pretty complete reverse of the MQTT protocol used by the messenger app implemented with two Instant Messaging libraries:

bitlbee-facebook https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee-facebook
purple-facebook https://github.com/dequis/bitlbee-facebook

Both share the same codebase and were essentially implemented by the same person, so you could either reuse the codebase or use bitlbee-facebook and do your thing on top of IRC.

Duhamel answered 13/4, 2016 at 7:44 Comment(0)

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I guess Facebook will never give access to xmpp after April 30th 2015 because they have blocked friends access from there sdk and through xmpp you can find roasters to access friends.

Ripon answered 28/2, 2015 at 4:41 Comment(3)

They just opened their messenger API up for developers two days ago – Fourway 27/3, 2015 at 19:42

@sauron : Can you give me the link – Ripon 28/3, 2015 at 11:49

This one ? – Territerrible 2/4, 2015 at 2:21

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