Return sender first name, and gender about facebook-messenger HOT 10 CLOSED

require 'httparty' # (if not already required)
include HTTParty

def get_sender_profile(sender)
  request = HTTParty.get(
    "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/#{sender['id']}",
    query: {
      access_token: ENV['ACCESS_TOKEN'],
      fields: 'first_name,last_name,gender,profile_pic'
    }
  )

  request.parsed_response
end

# Once you have a message: 
Bot.on :message do |message|
  sender = get_sender_profile(message.sender)
  puts sender.inspect
end

I haven't tested this so, please refer to the API docs.

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@alecrubin Can you not query the profile info from FB using the Sender ID? https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.6/user

For ex: Send a get request for this url: https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/#{id}

See more here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/

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I agree with both of you; you'll want it very often, but it's not the right thing for this library to do. Let's add a bit about Graph API clients like Koala to the README.

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Oops! guess you asked something different @alecrubin, but not very clear. You mean, to return via Payload?

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Nope, I think you nailed it, @gauravtiwari! I'm closing this pending a response from @alecrubin.

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@jgorset cool 🎉

Btw, @alecrubin you can refer to this class: https://github.com/hyperoslo/facebook-messenger-demo/blob/master/app/bots/product_bot.rb, it has a lot of implementations for Bot API (even sending serialised data via Payload).

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@gauravtiwari any chance adding this to the library? The code is trivial but re-writting the HTTParty error handling isn't fun ..

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Hey @zdne, Yeah we could, but this library is not intended for fetching Facebook Graph data. Adding it here would make the library heavy and violate SRP. Perhaps, you could use - Koala to interact with Graph API: https://github.com/arsduo/koala/wiki/Graph-API

Would this work?

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Hey, thanks for the response. I get and respect your point completely. However if I could argue I'd say this is almost always one thing you want to do with the bot. In any case, I'd suggest to add your comment to the README (with link to the koala)? Just my 2cents.

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@zdne Totally agree and it's very small thing, but just for SRP sake. Awesome! We will definitely add this to Readme, and you can totally do this too - just make a PR and we will merge it right in 👍

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