Sending private messages through Facebook API [duplicate]

Asked 6/12, 2010 at 5:32 Answered 15/7, 2012 at 13:55

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Facebook Api - send private messages to friends

I know that it is not officially possible to send private messages through FB API. Every thread in SO says so too. But I was using RockMelt browser and when you invite somebody, a private message is sent to them. Means it is possible to send private messages through API. More importantly, Facebook is okay with it.

Any guesses on how they are using it? Is it some HTTP POST trick using sockets? BTW, we are going to use this feature only on user initiated actions.

Wellfound answered 6/12, 2010 at 5:32 Comment(3)

Now it is possible to send private messages through Facebook API. I have given solution. – Yann 29/2, 2012 at 17:38

Consider this post: #9598869 – Spirant 2/10, 2013 at 20:37

@SomnathMuluk where is your answer? – Binomial 6/12, 2021 at 9:20

Reading messages is possible with the new messaging framework, available to registered developers only.

Have a read of this page - that's about all that I'm aware of currently:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/message

Sending, however, is not.

Ruthy answered 6/12, 2010 at 16:43 Comment(6)

But that's just read only access. Right? Can we SEND a message with it? – Wellfound 6/12, 2010 at 17:5

yeah currently the only access to the messages component at all is via registered access, and even then it's only read. When the new messaging system comes in, maybe you'll get it, but currently - no. – Ruthy 6/12, 2010 at 17:48

developers.facebook.com/blog/post/428 - "To comply with existing policies and laws that prohibit unsolicited email, and ensure that users are in control of their inbox, we aren’t currently permitting developers to send messages to @facebook.com email addresses, and have updated our policies to reflect this." – Ruthy 6/12, 2010 at 17:49

developers.facebook.com/blog/post/291 - "While we currently don't allow applications to send messages through this API, we're always thinking about new functionality to offer through Facebook Platform. " – Ruthy 6/12, 2010 at 17:50

The iPhone facebook-app, which uses the Graph API, can send messages. – Kurdistan 8/3, 2011 at 15:9

May find that since it's an official app made by Facebook that they've turned it on just for that. Checked their documentation again today and it still says that (officially anyway) they don't allow apps to send messages through the API. – Ruthy 8/3, 2011 at 18:11

You can now view and respond to messages on Facebook Pages via the Graph API but you still can't initiate a conversation, only respond to a user that has already messaged you.

From the docs linked above:

*You can reply to a user's message by issuing an HTTP POST to /CONVERSATION_ID/messages with the following parameters [conversation id, message]. A conversation ID look like t_id.216477638451347.*

Krys answered 15/7, 2012 at 13:55 Comment(4)

this seemed to phase out after graph api was introduced – Duckling 18/1, 2014 at 0:53

But is there way to auto-initiate(by user) conversation-with-my-page ? – Apollonius 12/10, 2015 at 23:29

@EvenCheng can you elaborate a bit further, the documentation says it is possible, yet every time I try this i get an error message, what do you mean phased out after the graph api was introduced? – Slav 28/3, 2018 at 9:5

I need some help on this. Can you explain your answer with a example – Binomial 6/12, 2021 at 9:16

You can do it using CHAT API. But it is limited plain text messages.

Glassman answered 18/4, 2011 at 18:9 Comment(1)

By 2015 it is deprecated :( – Casas 19/10, 2015 at 18:20

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