Facebook Messenger Bot - Share Button

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I am trying to develop a Facebook Messenger Bot. I know that for now the bot cannot be added in a group conversation, but there is the share button that share a message with a friend.

The message is sent by the user and not by the bot, therefore the bot doesn't know who received the message.

Do you know if there is a way to trigger the sharing event and save the id of the friend who received the message?

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Are you trying to get an answer for the new solution you came up with because your old solution to the actual problem didn't work out, or are you asking a question for your original question? Because this sounds like a XY Problem and not a question regarding your first problem. It is possible to write a "bot" that can write direct messages to people, I've done it and so has a thousand others before me. - Torxed
Sorry maybe I wasn't clear. My scenario is that an user is already chatting with my bot, but then he or she wants to include another friend in the conversation. I know that the bot cannot be added in a group, but there is the share button to share a specific message. The problem is that the bot doesn't receive anything when an user share a message, therefore the bot doesn't know who received the message. My question was if there is a way to retrieve the id of the user who received the shared message. - Alessandro Di Bella
Looks like Uber is doing it. See end of article. business2community.com/facebook/… - Cameron McGrane
hmm, i don't see any "share message" button in my chat - user151496

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Unfortunately for now, there is no mechanism announced by Facebook to retrieve the id of a user with whom another user shared a message with. So no, what you are asking isn't possible.

All the available methods and ways to work with Facebook Messenger Bots are included inside the official documentation of the Messenger Platform. If something isn't there, then it's not possible. (At least for now)