harshanas / Poya-Reminder

Poya Reminder is a Facebook Messenger bot which notifies about upcoming Poya Dates

Poya Reminder

Poya Reminder is a Facebook Messenger bot which notifies about upcoming Poya Dates. This is an inspiration of the website : https://nextpoyawhen.com/

How to use

Will update this once Facebook approved the bot. Stay tuned :)

Technologies & Frameworks used

• Node.js v10.15.0
• ExpressJS
• Axios
• NextPoyaWhen.com API

Installation

1. Clone the repository

2. Install dependencies

   npm install
   

3. Create an app on Facebook Developer Platform

4. Create and connect a Facebook page with the app & get the Page Access Token

5. Create a bot on Dashbot Analytics (Optional) and grab the API KEY if you need analytics

6. Rename the file .env.example to .env

7. Add a Verify Token as you wish, the page access token and dashbot API Key if you created a dashbot bot to get analytics

   FB_VERIFY_TOKEN = HelloPoyaBot
   FB_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN = thisisasamplepageaccesstoken
   PORT = 3000
   DASHBOT_API_KEY = thisisasampleapikey
   

8. Finally, Run it To locally run use:

   npm run start_local
   

   To run in a Production Server:

   npm run start
   

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Feel free to suggest new features, report issues and contribute :)

Special Thanks

• To @thameera - NextPoyaWhen.com

Credits

• NextPoyaWhen.com Repository - https://github.com/thameera/poya