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Installation

This package can be installed through Composer.

composer require mprince/laravel8-viber-bot

In Laravel 5.5 and above the package will autoregister the service provider. In Laravel 5.4 you must install this service provider.

// config/app.php
'providers' => [
    ...
    Paragraf\ViberBot\ViberBotServiceProvider::class,
    ...
];

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Configuration

You need to set in .env and setup webhook.

Env

VIBERBOT_API=your_viber_token
VIBERBOT_NAME=name
VIBERBOT_PHOTO=photo

You can find Viber token on Viber Partners after creating bot on Info tab.

WebHook

You must run artisan command for webhoook with url parameter

php artisan viber-bot:webhook https://example-url.com/some-route

Note: It must be full url and must be HTTPS.

Config file

Optionally, you can publish the config file of this package with this command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Paragraf\ViberBot\ViberBotServiceProvider"

The following config file will be published in config/viberbot.php

Usage

When the installation is done you have access to Bot and Client class.

Bot class

With bot class you naivgate your ViberBot how to work.

(new Bot($request, new TextMessage()))
  ->on(new MessageEvent($request->timestamp, $request->message_token, 
  new ViberUser($request->sender['id'],$request->sender['name']), $request->message))
  ->hears("Hi!")
  ->replay("Hello World!")
  ->send();

Note: If viber user not set name you will get error.

You can change responding type Message and Event who listen that event.

List of Events:

ConversationStartedEvent
DeliveredEvent
FailedEvent
MessageEvent
SeenEvent
SubscribedEvent
UnsubscribedEvent

Note: If you don't want to listen all events you can change event_types in config/viberbot.php. If you change you must run again php artisan viber-bot:webhook your-url in oreder to apply changes.

List of Messages:

TextMessage
BroadcastMessage
ContactMessage
FileMessage
KeyboardMessage
LocationMessage
PictureMessage
StickerMessage
URLMessage
VideoMessage
WelcomeMessage
CarouselMessage - ToDo

Client class

Client class, provide to you extra utility.

 (new Client())->broadcast('Hello', User::all(), 'viber_id');

Note: $method in broadcast() must point to viber_id. Also getOnlineStatus() need viber_ids.

If you want more information about Viber API or how something works check Viber REST API

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security related issues, please email nemanja.ivankovic@paragraf.rs instead of using the issue tracker.

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