Replies and Reactions Webhooks

Users can react or reply to messages that are in the thread (both a Page message or referencing their one of their own messages). We observe that users naturally use this expression actions, common in individual conversations, with Pages as well. These webhooks allow apps to get the context of the reply that the user id referencing and subscribe to reactions.

Contents

• Reply Webhook
• Reaction Webhook
• Helper Webhooks

Reply Webhook

For details see Messages Webhook Event Reference

Example of a reply to a message in Messenger

Example Reply Webhook Schema

message:{
    text: 'I have an issue with an order'
    mid: '<MID>'
    reply_to: {
        mid: '<MID_OF_MESSAGE_BEING_REPLIED_TO>',
    }
}

Reaction Webhook

Reactions have their own subscription field called message_reactions. Reactions, like other user actions, open the 24-hr standard messaging window. For details see Reactions Webhook Event Reference

Example of a reaction in Messenger

Example Reaction Webhook Schema

message:{
    reaction: {
        reaction: 'smile|angry|sad|wow|love|like|dislike|other',
        emoji: '\u{2764}\u{FE0F}',
        action: 'react|unreact',
        mid: '<MID_OF_ReactedTo_Message>',
    }
}

Helper Webhooks

To help apps provide a complete user experience we are releasing a helper that allows existing apps to get reactions and replies in the form of message webhooks. When messages are ultimately getting read by a human these helpers can result in support for reactions and replies with no code changes.

The helper webhooks described in this section are a temporary aid that allow apps to get reactions and replies as message webhooks. As temporary we expect to deprecated them on December 04, 2020.

Target Audience

Apps that show messages directly to human agents and were created before the availability reaction and replies webhooks. Apps in this category can get support for reactions and replies without code changes and have up to a year to implement the standard webhooks related to reactions and replies.

Enabling helper webhooks

These helpers can be enabled or disabled via toggles on the Messenger Settings of the App Dashboard. If the app was created before Dec 4, 2019 two toggles should be visible under the Webhooks section.

Example Reply Helper Webhook

The webhook below will adjust the text field to describe the context that this is a reply. original_text field appears only for replies helper webhooks, contains the unaltered text that the user wrote.

"message": {
	"mid": "m_Azh9c_bpCZ-tUy9lnE9hJ7IfLZDamVrALniheUYEDdHHl8xzaqkhcJPuAvZHpYjotySGirfwWwWBCeCQGoV-rg",
	"text": "I have an issue with an order (replied to - 'What we can do to help you today?')",
	"reply_to": {
		"mid": "m_O26bdn-DW_wQSY5rOZwoILIfLZDamVrALniheUYEDdEET7k2PRBmugCCw6WHB_Xc2Q95zKWRgqt_7mEFUvNSWA"
	},
	"original_text": "I have an issue with an order"
}

Example Reaction Helper Webhook

The webhook below will insert a message field to the reaction webhook. Since there is no new message but rather an update to a previous message the mid references the original message with the appended '_reaction' to not be confused as duplicate webhook of previous message.

One limitation of these helper webhooks, is that for non plain-text messages the content will default to 'attachment'. Like shown in the example below.

"reaction": {
	"mid": "m_oyU9yvUs0lZixb_pHaK6n7IfLZDamVrALniheUYEDdHo7lzd6t5egmvcpmc1fGTO4q92bvfK-8is-RFsSkxyaw",
	"action": "react",
	"emoji": "\ud83d\ude0d",
	"reaction": "love"
},
"message": {
	"text": "(reacted 'love' to - 'attachment')",
	"mid": "m_oyU9yvUs0lZixb_pHaK6n7IfLZDamVrALniheUYEDdHo7lzd6t5egmvcpmc1fGTO4q92bvfK-8is-RFsSkxyaw_reaction"
}