Creating and connecting a Facebook Messenger app

To integrate a chatbot into Facebook Messenger, we need to first create a Facebook app. To get started, go to https://developers.facebook.com/ and click Log In. If this is your first Facebook app, then you'll need to link this developer account to your personal account. Once you've logged in, you can create your first app. Click My Apps and then select Create New App. This will open a popup where we can name the app.

This app name won't be displayed to users; it is only ever seen by Facebook page admins:

Creating your Facebook app

Facebook apps can be used to do a huge range of things, but we're ...

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