Developers can use SnatchBot API to add messaging and conversational capabilities to their software.

To start with, please create your bot first (you can use an existing bot as well):

After this is done, go to the bot’s settings and open the Channels section. In the next panel, you will see the ‘Other/API’ channel:

Next, enter the particular App ID and App Secret that you intend to use to connect to the channel, then the Deploy button becomes available to activate the channel.
Note: the App ID and Secret can contain up to 55 characters, Latin letters and numbers.

Click the ‘Request Configure’ tab to proceed. Open Postman (to build a GET request) and copy the Get messages value:

After that, add ‘user_id’ and ‘message_id’ parameters to your request. The ‘user_id’ parameter can be taken from the Reports (User column), the same as the ‘message_id’ (if you do not have any messages, you can set this value to 0):

Here is the final GET request:

https://snatchbot.me/channels/api/api/id28233/app9YRCO5v8BwrjMu1G/apsNEm2qoIDY6Di7CzC23GhYe9F59pqVBVh?user_id=user.1553a463a21bde95.7kQLaUOl&message_id=0

After sending the request, the following JSON response will be received:

To send a message via API, use the POST method. Remove the ‘message_id’ parameter from the previous request, and then add a message in the Body section, for instance {"message": "Hi"}. After sending a request, you will receive a JSON response, to which you can reply using the same POST method:

Information about the API requests is displayed in the bot’s reports.

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Some restrictions

1. Facebook attributes are not available for API
2. The following plugins are not available for API: eBay, Giphy.
3. The Persistent Menu is not available for API.
4. Users can not subscribe/unsubscribe to RSS feeds, also the “Share” button is not available.