User Message Received

Description

The Chat API allows users to send messages to your bot. All message types, excluding
files, are supported for sending from user to bot, including text, picture, video, contact,
URL, and location.

Event Payload

The event payload is a JSON object with the following properties:

Example

{
  "event": "message",
  "timestamp": 1457764197627,
  "sender": {
    "id": "jc9HsWTZ2Yf2NkRZ8KcNug==",
    "name": "John McClane",
    "avatar": "http://avatar.example.com",
    "country": "UK",
    "language": "en",
    "api_version": 1
  },
  "message": {
    "type": "text",
    "text": "a message to the service",
    "media": "http://example.com",
    "location": {
      "lat": 50.76891,
      "lon": 6.11499
    },
    "tracking_data": "tracking data"
  },
  "message_token": 4912661846655238145
}

Property	Description	Notes
event	The event name.	Always message
timestamp	The time the event was triggered.	Unix timestamp in milliseconds
sender	The subscriber object.	See Subscriber Object
message	The message object.	See Message Object
message_token	Unique ID of the message