Communication
Chatfuel
6 min
the chatfuel modules allow you to create broadcast messages and send json responses from your chatfuel account prerequisites a facebook account through which you connect chatfuel a facebook page in order to use chatfuel with make, it is necessary to have a chatfuel account if you do not have one, you can create a chatfuel account at https //chatfuel com/ https //chatfuel com/ triggers json listener listens for incoming messages from chatfuel's json api plugin the enclosing make has to be run once, in order for user attributes from chatfuel to become visible and available for mapping connecting to json webhook go to make and open the json listener module enter a name for the webhook and click save copy the url to the clipboard log into your chatfuel account, select the bot, and then select automate open the block containing the json api, select the type as post , and enter the url copied in step 2 61d5aa6a3dc44 png the connection has been established now you can start building the make in make sending a response is as simple as inserting a json response module in the make's data flow following is an example make which uses filters to send a personalized greeting if a user's first name is available, and a generic greeting otherwise with this make setup, sending the first name as part of the user attributes from chatfuel causes the default "hello, anonymous" response to instead include the user's first name actions broadcast message sends any block from the bot's structure or sets user attributes false falsefalse left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type json response sends a response to the address from which a message was received false false 195false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type false left unhandled content type