Identifying Facebook Messenger user with UserID from a Facebook Login

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Richard O'Brien picture Richard O'Brien · Apr 13, 2016 · Viewed 38k times · Source

I am trying out the new Facebook Messenger Platform and have hit a bit of a problem.

When a user first chats with my Bot, I want to use the sender.id to lookup the user in my DB and verify whether they're a customer or not and offer a more tailored UX.

User's sign up to my service using Facebook Login, but unfortunately it appears my App's Facebook ID & my Bot's Facebook ID are different due to IDs being limited to App-scopes.

Is there any way associate the 2 IDs to allow me to find a user in my DB?

UPDATE (4/20/2016): We got around this by asking users on first contact via messenger to click a link to login to their account so we could associate their messenger_id with their account in our DB.

Would be awesome if facebook instead included PAGE_SCOPED IDs in the ids_for_business endpoint.

UPDATE: (6/1/2016): Facebook's latest update includes a new "Account Linking" functionality that appears to solve this issue. See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/account-linking

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Richard O'Brien picture Richard O'Brien · Jul 1, 2016

Facebook's latest update includes a new "Account Linking" functionality that appears to solve this issue. See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/account-linking

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