The Viber bot NodeJS library provides just what you need to develop intelligent bots that interact naturally with your Viber users
@viktordavidovich
Let's picture that I have 200 people. Is it possible to have a "chat" or "group" or whichever it's called in Viber, with all these guys there + Viber Bot (as a separate account in that chat) not posibleLast time I was asking the guy, who has some experience with developing Viber Bot, and he said that it's required to have PUBLIC chat/group, not like general.... He has mentioned that you can add Viber BOT only in such kind of chat types. Is it true? Yeah and i think soon you would be able only to create chatbot and not be able to have public chat with chatbot.I found it "All communication between bots and Viber users can only be initialized by the Viber user starting a new conversation to the account (opt–in). - yeah and if you have stickers you can make them to subscribe to automatically to your chatbot
(https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U4X7TfsaqgMPz5ZfTkht8XGU92fLOXf_/view)
@thethtun-mmds
This is the menu I see and I can't find "publish" actionPublish action is avaliable only in the phone application.I want the bot to appear in "Discover" section so that people can type in the name and look for it.I think this action can be performed by viber representatives only ask support guys or your nearest representative.
thank you for your answer!
Hello, I'm receving the following error:
TypeError: Data must be a string or a buffer
at TypeError (native)
at Hmac.update (crypto.js:75:16)
at MessageValidator._calculateHmacFromMessage (/myhost/node_modules/viber-bot/lib/message/message-validator.js:17:54)
at MessageValidator.validateMessage (/myhost/node_modules/viber-bot/lib/message/message-validator.js:11:30)
at _app.use (/myhost/node_modules/viber-bot/lib/middleware.js:61:32)
at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/myhost/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
at trim_prefix (/myhost/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:317:13)
at /myhost/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7
at Function.process_params (/myhost/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)
at next (/myhost/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)I guess it's SSL related. I'm trying to run the bot inside nginx, so I start nodejs in HTTP and nginx in HTTPs (which reverse proxies to nodejs).
const server = http.createServer(bot.middleware()).listen(port, () => bot.setWebhook(webhookUrl));
I am trying to forward a deep-link through the following url shema:
viber://forward?text=<Your Text>in the place of <Your Text> i have my deep-link
e.g.
viber://forward?text=viber://pa?chatURI=testUri&context=blablawhen i click the forward-link the share panel opens as expected but the
&context=blabla is missing from the text to be shared and it sends only viber://pa?chatURI=testUriIs there any way to share the full deep-link?
Thanks for your help :)
Hi, I am developing an IoT device, which periodically needs to send alarms. I would like to have the option to send these alarms to users that use Viber. Of course, each user shall only get notifications for their specific device that they own.
As I see now, programmatically one may only distinguish the users by their Viber ID and not by phone. This creates the problem that the server cannot know which ID coresponds to which user, and thus it does not know which device's alarms it should send.
Is there any other way to address a specific user (e.g. by their mobile), or generally any way to identify which user has this specific ID?
I do everything according to the documentation, but the picture becomes the whole button.I need, as in the example on the first screen
https://developers.viber.com/docs/tools/keyboard-examples/
typeof , which may be considered an antipattern, but "This is the way" . Be aware that you wont receive location messages in the bot.onTextMessage handler, but in bot.on(BotEvents.MESSAGE_RECEIVED, (message, response) => ... ); and also making users send location is considered in Viber for bad ux.
Hello!
Does anybody try to deploy the viber-bot to the Zeit Now?
In my case, it has been deployed well, I see the events capturing in the log (e.g bot.on(Events.SUBSCRIBED, …) or MESSAGE_RECEIVED), but all response methods, like bot.sendMessage aren’t working.
All methods working well locally, so problem probably in Zeit config. My current config is:
{
"name": "test-viber-bot",
"version": 2,
"builds": [
{
"src": "src/index.js",
"use": "@now/node"
}
],
"routes": [
{
"src": "^/(.*)",
"headers": { "Connection": "keep-alive" },
"dest": "/src"
}
]
}Start point for node is simple:
const app = express();
const port = env.PORT || 4000;
app.use("/", bot.middleware());
app.listen(port);What am I missing? :)
bot.sendMessage. Possible but needs work, maybe Viber is not the best solution for that, but its posible to implement.
