Facebook Messenger Bot, test users, has anyone got this working?

Question

We've created an FB messenger bot and can test it fine with real FB accounts. But we would like to create 2000 test users via the developer console/graph api.

The problem I've come across is that, test users (created via the API) can't see public pages. So I logged in as the test users, created a page, and great! test users can see test pages created by other test users. But now I can't link my bot to that page.

Has anyone managed to get this working? We have made a bot for a large corp and they want to send as many testers at it as possible.

The backup plan is that I create real FB accounts and use those...

Thanks!

Fleta

Answer 1

You have to manually link your test user's created page with your bot, for that, first retrieve the test page ID using the following link :

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/accounts?access_token=<TEST_USER_ACCESS_TOKEN>

Then use the page token to link your bot using :

https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/subscribed_apps?method=POST&access_token=<TEST_USER_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN>

(see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/guides/setup#subscribe_app)

Here is the detailed workaround : https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/230322797329131/?hc_location=ufi

Hope this helps !

Gileadite

Nice one Simon thank you!, I'll give it a go shortly. – Fleta

Thanks Simon, this working - one thing to make anyone does that comes across this is to exchange the short lived page token for a long one. Otherwise as soon as your test user logs out your bot won't be able to take to the test page again. developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/access-tokens/… GET /oauth/access_token? grant_type=fb_exchange_token& client_id={app-id}& client_secret={app-secret}& fb_exchange_token={short-lived-token} – Fleta

I can't get the info about accounts, this is the result: { "data": [] } – Winstead