How to have a facebook messenger bot send you a youtube video embedded in messenger

Question

I was wondering if it is possible to have a messenger bot send you a youtube video link and generate a playable video inside messenger the same way you can if you paste a link inside the messenger. Right now my bot can send a message with a youtube link but it just sends it as text it doesn't generate a video recognizing the title, description etc. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

You can also send by OpenGraph. It will automatically display the video inside m.me chat window but in mobile iOS app, currently it redirects to youtube page:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
  "recipient":{
    "id":"USER_ID"
  },
  "message":{
    "attachment":{
      "type":"template",
      "payload":{
        "template_type":"open_graph",
        "elements":[
           {
            "url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9A1MEbgLyA"    
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}' "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/me/messages?access_token=$TOKEN"