<p dir="auto">As you might now I have just started working at a chatbot developer company and as preparation besides many other things I was reading through Viber's REST API documentation. I made some notes for myself and then I realized I could share them with you, maybe for some people it could be quite useful to have a summary.
<h1>Getting started
<p dir="auto">To be able to implement the API you need the followings:
<ul>
<li>Active Viber Account
<li>Active Public account/ bot --> you can register one <a href="https://partners.viber.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">here
<li>Authentication key retrieved from your Public Account
<li>Account webhook
<p dir="auto">Example for Authentication key, which should be included in the HTTP Header of the requests:<br />
<em>X-Viber-Auth-Token: 445da6az1s345z78-dazcczb2542zv51a-e0vc5fva17480im9
<h3>Setting a webhook
<p dir="auto"><center><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmSe1QGiwduEpgrKix1sCtXFTv7YbtwSEuxkEqZLumsYhZ" alt="image.png" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmSe1QGiwduEpgrKix1sCtXFTv7YbtwSEuxkEqZLumsYhZ 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmSe1QGiwduEpgrKix1sCtXFTv7YbtwSEuxkEqZLumsYhZ 2x" />
<h3>Basic Text Message Example
<p dir="auto"><center><img src="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmafgUCzeG3fdsZHL4yBQ9UBAEbrHbkk5437z7CVcEA4wb" alt="image.png" srcset="https://images.hive.blog/768x0/https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmafgUCzeG3fdsZHL4yBQ9UBAEbrHbkk5437z7CVcEA4wb 1x, https://images.hive.blog/1536x0/https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmafgUCzeG3fdsZHL4yBQ9UBAEbrHbkk5437z7CVcEA4wb 2x" />
<h3>Possible message types
<ul>
<li>Picture
<li>Video
<li>File
<li>Contact
<li>Location (latitude, longitude)
<li>Url
<li>Sticker
<li>Carousel → side-scrollable multi-option panel
<li>Keyboard → multi-choice answer possibility
<h3>Broadcast message
<p dir="auto">Broadcast message allows you to send message to multiple receivers up to 300 people.<br />
Change the key “receiver” to “broadcast_list” in the JSON:
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<h3>Other basic API features
<ul>
<li>Get user details
<li>Check if the user is online
<li>Post to public chat
<h3>Callbacks:
<ul>
<li>Subscribe
<li>Unsubscribe
<li>Conversation started → response can be a welcome message
<li>Status (delivered/seen/failed)
<h3>Receive message from user
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<p dir="auto">This was a brief summary of the API, I just wanted to list the key features and give some code examples. The whole, detailed description can be reached here:<br /><span>
<a href="http://developers.viber.com/docs/api/rest-bot-api/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">http://developers.viber.com/docs/api/rest-bot-api/
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