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Charan Goud
Charan Goud

Reputation: 61

Get users current location from Facebook messenger Chatbot api

I am working on fb messenger bot and I want to access user's current location without them sending it as an attachment.I tried to get user's current location from fb graph API but it seems like to return the user's location from their profile. I need something like real time geo coordinates.

Thanks in Advance!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 13272

Answers (2)

andyrandy
andyrandy

Reputation: 73984

The only way to get the location is when the user sends it: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/send-api-reference/quick-replies

More information: How to send location from Facebook messenger platform?

Upvotes: 5

Metablocks Corp
Metablocks Corp

Reputation: 1645

Pretty sure there is no automatic geo-location support in the FB messenger API but:

  1. On mobile you can have them submit their location using the location icon, this works pretty well (gives you their lat and long)
  2. On both desktop and mobile you can ask them to input their location, then use that information to get their coordinates

Upvotes: 2

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