Make sure you keep your app in development! Start a submission, then select both the manage pages and publish pages permission. To allow our app to post comments, click on App Review in the side menu. Copy-paste these into a working environment, a simple text editor will do. There you'll see the App Id and the App Secret.

To get the API credentials, click on the top-left dashboard.

We need to do two things here: copy the API credentials and make sure our app can post comments on our Facebook page. You can give it any name you want, other people won't see it anyway. Then head over to the Facebook Developer Portal, click on My Apps in the top right and Add a New App. If you don't have a page yet, start by making a Facebook page here. Getting the long-lived Facebook access token

A page access token (normally this expires after a few hours, I think? We will create an access token that lasts 60 days).

A Facebook app in the Facebook Developer Portal.

You'll need to install Python3 and all the requirements that are in the requirements.txt file inside the Github repo. So let's get started and create your own Facebook Autoreplier bot! What you need You'll need some knowledge of python to create different images and change the copy, but overall the process pretty straightforward.

I've released the code under the MIT license on Github for you to play around with. For more info, check the autoresponder info page! Update: As there was some interest from marketers to use this for their brands, I decided to offer the autoresponder as a service. I'm a sucker for these things and wanted to find out exactly how difficult it was to make myself.Ībout 200 lines of python later, I pulled it off. Behold the Facebook Autoreplier bot in action. At the time of writing, the post has over 8200 comments. No way those 4100 pictures were made by hand.Īfter looking around I found out that Inti De Ceukelaire created such a thing before and has written about it here. Lots of people thought there was someone making these images by hand, but I knew better. My meme-loving sister tagged me and apparently I've been bad in the past year. You had to tag a friend in the comments and the page would automatically respond with an image showing the profile picture of that friend, plus a note of 'Sinterklaas' (a Santa Claus-like figure roaming Belgium and the Netherlands in early December) judging your behaviour of the past year. A week ago, a Belgian telecom company created this awesome post on Facebook.

Turn off auto comments in facebook