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broid-viber

Broid Viber Integration

Broid Integrations is an open source project providing a suite of Activity Streams 2 libraries for unified communications among a vast number of communication platforms.

Connect your App to Multiple Messaging Channels with One OpenSource Language.

Message types supported

Simple	Image	Video	Buttons	Location	Phone number
✅	✅	✅

Buttons, Location, Phone number are platform limitations.

Getting started

Connect to Viber

import broidViber from 'broid-viber'
 
const viber = new broidViber({
  username: '<sender_name>',
  token: "<app_key>",
  http: {
    webhookURL: "http://127.0.0.1/"
  }
})
 
viber.connect()
  .subscribe({
    next: data => console.log(data),
    error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
    complete: () => console.log('complete'),
  })

Options availables

name	Type	default	Description
serviceID	string	random	Arbitrary identifier of the running instance
logLevel	string	info	Can be : fatal, error, warn, info, debug, trace
token	string		Your application key
username	string		Your public page name
http	object	{ "port": 8080, "http": "0.0.0.0", "webhookURL": "127.0.0.1" }	WebServer options (host, port, webhookURL)

Receive a message

viber.listen()
  .subscribe({
    next: data => console.log(`Received message: ${data}`),
    error: err => console.error(`Something went wrong: ${err.message}`),
    complete: () => console.log('complete'),
  })

Post a message

To send a message, the format should use the broid-schemas.

const message_formated = '...'
 
viber.send(message_formated)
  .then(() => console.log("ok"))
  .catch(err => console.error(err))

Examples of messages

Message received

• A message received from Sally

{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "actor": {
    "id": "8GBB3nlCwffk8SQm1zmcAA==",
    "name": "Sally",
    "type": "Person"
  },
  "generator": {
    "id": "5c27ca30-5070-4290-a30a-d178ebf467c9",
    "name": "viber",
    "type": "Service"
  },
  "object": {
    "content": "Hello world",
    "id": "5000186376024662000",
    "type": "Note"
  },
  "published": 1484195107,
  "target": {
    "id": "8GBB3nlCwffk8SQm1zmcAA==",
    "name": "Sally",
    "type": "Person"
  },
  "type": "Create"
}

• A video/image received from Sally

{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "published": 1483677146,
  "type": "Create",
  "generator": {
    "id": "67c9cb10-8a74-42c8-ba55-294d0447cdf9",
    "type": "Service",
    "name": "viber"
  },
  "actor": {
    "id": "8GBB3nlCwffk8SQm1zmcAA==",
    "name": "Sally",
    "type": "Person"
  },
  "target": {
    "id": "8GBB3nlCwffk8SQm1zmcAA==",
    "name": "Sally",
    "type": "Person"
  },
  "object": {
  "type": "Image",
  "id": "358c14836772801482I5g3Jjko7RWp6M",
  "url": "url_of_file",
  "mediaType": "image/jpeg"
  }
}

Send a message

• Send a simple message

{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "type": "Create",
  "generator": {
    "id": "f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a",
    "type": "Service",
    "name": "viber"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "Note",
    "content": "hello world"
  },
  "to": {
    "id": "8GBB3nlCwffk8SQm1zmcAA==",
    "name": "Sally"
  }
}

• Send a image, video

{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "type": "Create",
  "generator": {
    "id": "f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a",
    "type": "Service",
    "name": "viber"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "Image",
    "content": "hello world",
    "url": "https://www.broid.ai/images/fake.png"
  },
  "to": {
    "id": "8GBB3nlCwffk8SQm1zmcAA==",
    "name": "Sally"
  }
}

• Send a location

{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "type": "Create",
  "generator": {
    "id": "f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a",
    "type": "Service",
    "name": "viber"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "Place",
    "latitude": 45.53192,
    "longitude": -73.55304
  },
  "to": {
    "id": "8GBB3nlCwffk8SQm1zmcAA==",
    "name": "Sally"
  }
}

• Send quick reply message

{
  "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
  "type": "Create",
  "generator": {
    "id": "f6e92eb6-f69e-4eae-8158-06613461cf3a",
    "type": "Service",
    "name": "viber"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "Note",
    "content": "hello world",
    "attachment": [{
        "type": "Button",
        "content": "Broid's website",
        "name": "broid",
        "mediaType": "text/html",
        "url": "https://www.broid.ai"
    }, {
        "type": "Button",
        "content": "Falken's Maze",
        "name": "maze",
        "url": "value_maze"
    }]
  },
  "to": {
    "id": "8GBB3nlCwffk8SQm1zmcAA==",
    "name": "Sally"
  }
}

Contributing to Broid

Broid is an open source project. Broid wouldn't be where it is now without contributions by the community. Please consider forking Broid to improve, enhance or fix issues. If you feel like the community will benefit from your fork, please open a pull request.

And because we want to do the better for you. Help us improving Broid by sharing your feedback on our Integrations GitHub Repo and let's build Broid together!

Code of Conduct

Make sure that you're read and understand the Code of Conduct.

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Broid.ai

This project is licensed under the AGPL 3, which can be found here.