Facebook API send messages

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to, or if it is allowed or possible to send messages using the Facebook API.

I am using the Facebook graph API from Facebook4j.

It seems that I can get a user's messages from getInbox(), but I can't see anyway to create a message?

I really only want to respond to Page messages using a Page access token, user messages are not required, but would be nice too.

Anyone know how, or if it is possible?

Answer 1

The code I ended up with is,

to get all messages,

RawAPIResponse res = getConnection().callGetAPI("/" + connection.getPage().getId() + "/conversations");
JSONObject result = res.asJSONObject();
JSONArray conversations = result.getJSONArray("data");

and to send a message,

Map<String, String> params = new HashMap<String, String>();
params.put("message", text);
connection.callPostAPI("/" + conversationId + "/messages", params);

It works, but a little ugly. Hopefully Facebook4J will support this API soon.

Answer 2

Those links will tell you how to reply to messages with a Page Token:

• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.4/page/conversations
• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.4/conversation/messages

In general, just do a POST request to this endpoint: /{conversation-id}/messages