Adding support for Facebook Notification Settings (Regular Push, Silent Push, Silent)

facebook_bot.js

@@ -134,6 +134,21 @@ controller.hears(['hello', 'hi'], 'message_received', function(bot, message) {
     });
 });
 
+controller.hears(['silent push reply'], 'message_received', function(bot, message) {
+    reply_message = {
+        text: "This message will have a push notification on a mobile phone, but no sound notification",
+        notification_type: "SILENT_PUSH"
+    }
+    bot.reply(message, reply_message)
+})
+
+controller.hears(['no push'], 'message_received', function(bot, message) {
+    reply_message = {
+        text: "This message will not have any push notification on a mobile phone",
+        notification_type: "NO_PUSH"
+    }
+    bot.reply(message, reply_message)
+})
 
 controller.hears(['structured'], 'message_received', function(bot, message) {
 

lib/Facebook.js

@@ -63,8 +63,11 @@ function Facebookbot(configuration) {
                 facebook_message.sender_action = message.sender_action;
             }
 
-            //Add Access Token to outgoing request
+            if (message.notification_type) {
+                facebook_message.notification_type = message.notification_type
+            }
 
+            //Add Access Token to outgoing request
             facebook_message.access_token = configuration.access_token;
 
             request({

readme-facebook.md

@@ -223,6 +223,22 @@ bot.stopTyping(message, function () {
 bot.replyWithTyping(message, 'Hello there, my friend!');
 ```
 
+## Silent and No Notifications
+When sending a user a message you can make the message have either no notification or have a notification that doesn't play a sound. Both of these features are unique to the mobile application messenger. To do this add the `notification_type` field to message. Notification type must be one of the following:
+- REGULAR will emit a sound/vibration and a phone notification
+- SILENT_PUSH will just emit a phone notification
+- NO_PUSH will not emit either
+
+`notification_type` is optional. By default, messages will be REGULAR push notification type
+
+```
+reply_message = {
+    text: "Message text here",
+    notification_type: NOTIFICATION_TYPE
+}
+bot.reply(message, reply_message)
+```
+
 ## Use BotKit for Facebook Messenger with an Express web server
 Instead of the web server generated with setupWebserver(), it is possible to use a different web server to receive webhooks, as well as serving web pages.