botbuilder-wechat-connector

Microsoft Bot Framework V3 connector for Wechat office account

Features

• ready for Microsoft Bot Framework V3
• no need a registered bot on dev.botframework.com, but require a certified wechat office account, go to apply trial account
• depend on wechat and wechat-api packages
• support receiving and sending almost any wechat message types
• for express framework

Installation

npm install botbuilder-wechat-connector

Preparation

We assume that, you don't have a certified wechat office account yet, but want to use a trial account for API testing, go to this place to apply a trial wechat office account.

If you do have a certified wechat office account, you must know how to configure wechat message service certainly.

Usage

Step 1, create your bot with wechat connector

var builder   = require('botbuilder'),
    connector = require('botbuilder-wechat-connector');
    
var wechatConnector = new connector.WechatConnector({
    appID: "YOUR WECHAT APP ID",
    appSecret: "YOUR WECHAT APP SECRET",
    appToken: "YOUR WECHAT TOKEN"
});

var bot = new builder.UniversalBot(wechatConnector);

Step 2, create express app as usual and use wechat connector as middleware

var app    = express();
app.use('/bot/wechat', wechatConnector.listen());
app.listen(9090);

when you configure your wechat message service, you have to offer an available public url, if can not, try ngrok. When submit this url in wechat backend, wechat server will send request to this url, so, ensure you server running good before submiting.

Step 3, add dialogs and you can see message in session object include wechat message content you sent.

bot.dialog('/', function (session) {
	console.log('Wechat message: ', session.message);
});

And, you can find media content like image, voice, video, etc in message.attachments of session object.

bot.dialog('/', function (session) {
	console.log('Wechat media: ', session.message.attachments);
});

for now, we include all wechat message type, as follow.

console.log(connector.WechatAttachmentType)

{
    Image:      'wechat/image',
    Voice:      'wechat/voice',
    Video:      'wechat/video',
    ShortVideo: 'wechat/shortvideo',
    Link:       'wechat/link',
    Location:   'wechat/location',
    Music:      'wechat/music',
    News:       'wechat/news',
    MpNews:     'wechat/mpnews',
    Card:       'wechat/card'
}

Step 4, sending message out is the same.

Send text message

bot.dialog('/', function (session) {
	session.send("Im a wechat bot!");
});

Send media, like image, video, etc. for example, send an image out.

bot.dialog('/', function (session) {
	var msg = new builder.Message(session).attachments([
		{
			contentType: 'wechat/image',
			content: {
				mediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF AN IMAGE'
			}
		}
	]);
	session.send(msg);
});

Want know more about content object, please reference this offical document.

Attachment

Here is detail of all attachment object scheme.

Send attachment

Image

{
	contentType: 'wechat/image',
	content: {
		mediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF AN IMAGE'
	}
}

Voice

{
	contentType: 'wechat/voice',
	content: {
		mediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF VOICE'
	}
}

Video

{
	contentType: 'wechat/video',
	content: {
		mediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF VIDEO',
		thumbMediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF THUMB'
	}
}

Music

{
	contentType: 'wechat/music',
	content: {
		 title: 'TITLE',
		 description: 'DESC',
		 musicurl: 'MUSIC URL',
		 hqmusicurl: "HQ MUSIC URL",
		 thumb_media_id: "THUMB MEDIA ID"
	}
}

News

{
	contentType: 'wechat/news',
	content: [
		{
		    "title": "TITLE",
		    "description": "DESC",
		    "url": "NEWS URL",
		    "picurl": "PIC URL"
		 },
		 ...
	]
}

MpNews

{
	contentType: 'wechat/mpnews',
	content: {
		mediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF MPNEWS'
	}
}

Card

{
	contentType: 'wechat/card',
	content: {
		card_id: 'CARD ID',
		card_ext: 'CARD EXT'
	}
}

Receive attachment

Image

{
	contentType: 'wechat/image',
	content: {
		url: 'IMAGE URL',
		mediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF AN IMAGE'
	}
}

Voice

{
	contentType: 'wechat/voice',
	content: {
		format: 'FORMAT',
		recognition: 'RECOGNITION',
		mediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF VOICE'
	}
}

Video

{
	contentType: 'wechat/video',
	content: {
		mediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF VIDEO',
		thumbMediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF THUMB'
	}
}

Short Video Only receiving messages can have this message type.

{
	contentType: 'wechat/shortvideo',
	content: {
		mediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF SHORT VIDEO',
		thumbMediaId: 'MEDIA ID OF THUMB'
	}
}

Link

{
	contentType: 'wechat/link',
	content: {
		title: 'TITLE',
		description: 'DESC',
		url: 'LINK URL'
	}
}

Location

{
	contentType: 'wechat/location',
	content: {
		locationX: 'LOCATIONX',
		locationY: 'LOCATIONY',
		scale: 'SCALE',
		label: 'LABEL'
	}
}

Example

An example is located at tests directory. Using following command to run it.

npm test

Thanks

This package is greatly inspired by botbuilder-wechat, so thanks @markusf.

Issues

Please feel free to open issues, if you have any suggestion.

License

The MIT license