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MHugh
MHugh

Reputation: 465

How to programmatically send a message to a Teams BOT

I have a BOT running which reponds to api/messages URL from the BOT Framework Emulator, and I can send text to it.

However what I need to do is write an application which sends text to the BOT over this URL. That is basically does what the BOT Framework Emulator does when I enter text and send it, probably over the graph API.

I am aware of information which demonstrates sending to a chat in a channel, but I just need to send to the BOT itself.

Can anyone advise how I can do this, or is there a suitable sample which demonstrates it.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 506

Answers (1)

Hilton Giesenow
Hilton Giesenow

Reputation: 10854

At the end of the day, your bot is really just a web api endpoint. If you set up a tunneling service like ngrok, you can use it's built-in web viewer to see the traffic that is sent to you bot, e.g. via the emulator or even via the azure bot registration page (there is a similar emulator built into the page in Azure). Once you've seen that traffic, you can essentially just mirror it from whatever you want to call from - it's essentially a json payload.

However, considering your bot is just a web api, I'm not sure why you want to "call" your bot from another app. Why not just make another endpoint that you can use for app-to-app communication (like a normal api endpoint). You can then refactor your code so that whatever you need to do can be done either via a bot message OR via the API call.

Upvotes: 1

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