haryphamdev / facebook-messenger-restaurant-chat-bot

A restaurant chatbot uses Facebook Messenger Platform, building from scratch with Node.js Platform

facebook-messenger-restaurant-chat-bot

A restaurant chatbot uses Facebook Messenger Platform, building from scratch with Node.js Platform.

Video demo the bot: https://youtu.be/sLdrrZLxIgU

• Feel free to test my bot👉: https://m.me/restaurantHaryPhamDev
• The Facebook Page I embed that bot: https://www.facebook.com/restaurantHaryPhamDev

What can this bot do:

• Showing menu (lunch, dinner, pub menu), showing rooms.
• Take a reservation.
• Call the phone number, persistent menu (link to view Facebook Fan Page, Youtube channel).
• Automatic understand a message is a datetime or a phone number (use for taking reservation).
• Whenever a reservation is done, a message notification will be automatically push to a group Telegram.

New update:

• Mark converstion is read.
• Turn on/off typing
• Handle the sentences with meaning "greetings", "thanks" and bye (support English, Spanish, Germany and France). Eg: test the bot with these sentences: What's up or Hola or Hallo or Bonjour.

How to setup this bot for your own Facebook Page without any cost ?

1. Clone this project

2. Create a Heroku app

3. Deploy this project to your Heroku app

4. Create a Facebook Developer App, A Facebook Page (to embed this bot)

5. Going to Facebook Developer App, add the Messenger Product, generate FACEBOOK_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN, config the webhook (default, the url for the webhook is: <the_domain_your_herokuapp>/webhook ) .

Remember to update the config variables on Heroku as well.

6. Enable the option: Build-in NLP on Messenger Product (Natural Laguage Processing) to make the bot understand the sentences with the meaning "datetime" and "phone_number"

7.(Optional) If you want to push a notificaton to a group Telegram (when a customer is finish the process of "Reserve a table"), create a Telegram Bot and a group Telegram.

8. Enjoy!

Several errors you may encouter:

• Forgetting to update the environment variables on Heroku : go to "Settings option", then "Reveal Congfig Var"
• The bot only works with the admin account, doesn't reply the others Facebook accounts: need to be approved the "pages_messaging" permission. For detail, watch this video: https://youtu.be/0VRQRHnrGxg

Wonder how to build this bot and want to make it yourself, watch my video to build this bot from scratch: https://youtu.be/x_0X3EHmIu4

Find me here:

• Youtube Channel: https://bit.ly/subscribe-haryphamdev
• Facebook Fanpage: https://facebook.com/haryphamdev
• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/haryphamdev
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/haryphamdev
• GitHub: https://github.com/haryphamdev