Replacement for Facebook Chat API in v2.0? [closed]

Answer 1

The Facebook XMPP Chat API has been deprecated in v2.0 and above meaning it won't be available after April 30th 2015.

Facebook have not announced any replacement for this API, so I'd recommend not building a product which requires this functionality.

Answer 2

This is not about XMPP, but my problem was to use the chat without accessing the browser and this node package solved it. It tricks facebook into believing that you are getting and posting from their site. Pretty cool!

Answer 3

Since a few months, there's a pretty complete reverse of the MQTT protocol used by the messenger app implemented with two Instant Messaging libraries:

• bitlbee-facebook https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee-facebook
• purple-facebook https://github.com/dequis/bitlbee-facebook

Both share the same codebase and were essentially implemented by the same person, so you could either reuse the codebase or use bitlbee-facebook and do your thing on top of IRC.

Answer 4

I guess Facebook will never give access to xmpp after April 30th 2015 because they have blocked friends access from there sdk and through xmpp you can find roasters to access friends.

Answer 5

While it's not a fully fledged API or anything, there's a libpurple (pidgin) plugin that I've confirmed works with the new Facebook chat restrictions: https://github.com/jgeboski/purple-facebook

Answer 6

Messanger API is here (can't post a comment yet) info: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2015/03/25/introducing-messenger-platform-and-businesses-on-messenger/
api: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger

however I didn't find anything that would be useful as a replacement for chat API