Facebook - Get conversation thread ID with message ID?

Question

When I receive a "message received callback" event from the Facebook Realtime API (webhooks) I want to fetch previous messages in the conversation. To do that I need the ID of the conversation thread.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/webhook-reference/message?locale=en_US

The event does not contain any information about the ID of the conversation thread (t_id). It only contains the message ID (mid).

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.8/conversation

Is there a way to get the conversation thread ID?

Magnesia

I see here a similar discussion: #19129517 – Iago

Sadly that doesn't help. "As of August 8, 2016, FQL will no longer be available and cannot be queried." I'm only using the Graph API. – Magnesia

Having this issue as well! – Ormiston

@John, have you gotten anything? – Ormiston

Sadly I didn't find a solution, yet. – Magnesia

Apparently this isn't possible without searching through all of the conversations to find the one that contains the message you want. I was told that Messenger webhook updates will soon start including thread_key, but I'm not sure when or if that will happen. – Rothermere

I am also facing same query for Facebook API. Please let me know if there is any other solution. I also need Conversation ID from its one of the Message ID. Thanks – Officiant

Answer 1

I thing there is an easier way to do this. You can use the user_id filter on conversations:

https://graph.facebook.com/v3.0/--PAGE-ID--/conversations?fields=senders&user_id=

See the Parameters section from here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/page/conversations/

Starfish

thanks man it save my day – Gelid

Answer 2

There is no straight way of doing it. You can use the workaround below to loop conversation ids:

(a) Fetch all conversation ids with sender ids https://graph.facebook.com/v3.0/--PAGE-ID--/conversations?fields=senders

(b) lookup the user_id of the sender of the message. https://graph.facebook.com/v3.0/--MESSAGE-ID--?fields=from

(c) loop through conversation ids to find a match for the message user_id and get the thread_id.

PS: this is an expensive solution. Try to avoid it unless you really need it.

Glennglenna

Answer 3

To get a conversation ID using a message ID in the Facebook Graph API, you need to follow these steps:

1. Get the Message Details: Retrieve the message details using the message ID. This will include the conversation ID.
2. Use the Access Token: Ensure you have the proper access token with the necessary permissions.

Here is an example of how you can do this using a GET request:

https://graph.facebook.com/v{API_VERSION}/{message-id}?fields=thread_id,id,message,created_time,to,from,attachments,is_unsupported,shares,tags&access_token=<accesstokensanitized>

The response will include details about the message, including the thread_id (thread_id is the conversation ID.)

Colossal