This PR introduces basic minimum version of **Instagram Business
Login**, making Instagram inbox setup more straightforward by removing
the Facebook Page dependency. This update enhances user experience and
aligns with Meta’s recommended best practices.
Fixes
https://linear.app/chatwoot/issue/CW-3728/instagram-login-how-to-implement-the-changes
## Why Introduce Instagram as a Separate Inbox?
Currently, our Instagram integration requires linking an Instagram
account to a Facebook Page, making setup complex. To simplify this
process, Instagram now offers **Instagram Business Login**, which allows
users to authenticate directly with their Instagram credentials.
The **Instagram API with Instagram Login** enables businesses and
creators to send and receive messages without needing a Facebook Page
connection. While an Instagram Business or Creator account is still
required, this approach provides a more straightforward integration
process.
| **Existing Approach (Facebook Login for Business)** | **New Approach
(Instagram Business Login)** |
| --- | --- |
| Requires linking Instagram to a Facebook Page | No Facebook Page
required |
| Users log in via Facebook credentials | Users log in via Instagram
credentials |
| Configuration is more complex | Simpler setup |
Meta recommends using **Instagram Business Login** as the preferred
authentication method due to its easier configuration and improved
developer experience.
---
## Implementation Plan
The core messaging functionality is already in place, but the transition
to **Instagram Business Login** requires adjustments.
### Changes & Considerations
- **API Adjustments**: The Instagram API uses `graph.instagram`, whereas
Koala (our existing library) interacts with `graph.facebook`. We may
need to modify API calls accordingly.
- **Three Main Modules**:
1. **Instagram Business Login** – Handle authentication flow.
2. **Permissions & Features** – Ensure necessary API scopes are granted.
3. **Webhooks** – Enable real-time message retrieval.
---
## Instagram Login Flow
1. User clicks **"Create Inbox"** for Instagram.
2. App redirects to the [Instagram Authorization
URL](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-platform/instagram-api-with-instagram-login/business-login#embed-the-business-login-url).
3. After authentication, Instagram returns an authorization code.
5. The app exchanges the code for a **long-lived token** (valid for 60
days).
6. Tokens are refreshed periodically to maintain access.
7. Once completed, the app creates an inbox and redirects to the
Chatwoot dashboard.
---
## How to Test the Instagram Inbox
1. Create a new app on [Meta's Developer
Portal](https://developers.facebook.com/apps/).
2. Select **Business** as the app type and configure it.
3. Add the Instagram product and connect a business account.
4. Copy Instagram app ID and Instagram app secret
5. Add the Instagram app ID and Instagram app secret to your app config
via `{Chatwoot installation
url}/super_admin/app_config?config=instagram`
6. Configure Webhooks:
- Callback URL: `{your_chatwoot_url}/webhooks/instagram`
- Verify Token: `INSTAGRAM_VERIFY_TOKEN`
- Subscribe to `messages`, `messaging_seen`, and `message_reactions`
events.
7. Set up **Instagram Business Login**:
- Redirect URL: `{your_chatwoot_url}/instagram/callback`
8. Test inbox creation via the Chatwoot dashboard.
## Troubleshooting & Common Errors
### Insufficient Developer Role Error
- Ensure the Instagram user is added as a developer:
- **Meta Dashboard → App Roles → Roles → Add People → Enter Instagram
ID**
### API Access Deactivated
- Ensure the **Privacy Policy URL** is valid and correctly set.
### Invalid request: Request parameters are invalid: Invalid
redirect_uri
- Please configure the Frontend URL. The Frontend URL does not match the
authorization URL.
---
## To-Do List
- [x] Basic integration setup completed.
- [x] Enable sending messages via [Messaging
API](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-platform/instagram-api-with-instagram-login/messaging-api).
- [x] Implement automatic webhook subscriptions on inbox creation.
- [x] Handle **canceled authorization errors**.
- [x] Handle all the errors
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram-platform/instagram-graph-api/reference/error-codes
- [x] Dynamically fetch **account IDs** instead of hardcoding them.
- [x] Prevent duplicate Instagram channel creation for the same account.
- [x] Use **Global Config** instead of environment variables.
- [x] Explore **Human Agent feature** for message handling.
- [x] Write and refine **test cases** for all scenarios.
- [x] Implement **token refresh mechanism** (tokens expire after 60
days).
Fixes https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/issues/10440
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Co-authored-by: Shivam Mishra <scm.mymail@gmail.com>
- Twilio events were being processed synchronously, leading to slow API
responses.
- This change moves Twilio event processing to a background job to
improve performance and align with how other events (e.g., WhatsApp) are
handled.
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Co-authored-by: Pranav <pranav@chatwoot.com>
- Add a warning logger for cases where we are getting webhook events for
inactive numbers.
- Add config to discard events for inactive numbers so that the meta
will stop sending events
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Co-authored-by: Pranav <pranav@chatwoot.com>
Currently, we do not support reactions, ephemeral messages, or the request_welcome event for the WhatsApp channel. However, if this is the first event we receive in Chatwoot (i.e., there is no previous conversation or contact in Chatwoot), it will create a contact and a conversation without any messages. This confuses our customer, as it may appear that Chatwoot has missed some messages. There are multiple cases where this might be the first event we receive in Chatwoot. One quick example is when the user has sent an outbound campaign from another tool and their customers reacted to the message.
Another event like this is request_welcome event. WhatsApp has a concept for welcome messages. You can send an outbound message even though the user has not send a message. You can receive notifications through a webhook whenever a WhatsApp user initiates a chat with you for the first time. (Read the Welcome message section: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/cloud-api/phone-numbers/conversational-components/ ). Although this can help the business send a pro-active message to the user, we don't have it scoped in our feature set. For now, I'm ignoring this event.
Fixes https://linear.app/chatwoot/issue/CW-3018/whatsapp-handle-request-welcome-case-properly
Fixes https://linear.app/chatwoot/issue/CW-3017/whatsapp-handle-reactions-properly
This PR logs additional information in content_attributes of a message in case it is unsupported. This info can be used by the client to render a fresh UI
* chore: update to ruby 3.1.3
* chore: ping docker version to alpine3.16 for nodev16.x
Starting with Node 17, nodejs switched to OpenSSL3. The docker builds
are installing node18.xx with alpine-3.1.3.
From Node.js 17's announcement post:
If you hit an ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED error in your application
with Node.js 17, it’s likely that your application or a module you’re
using is attempting to use an algorithm or key size which is no longer
allowed by default with OpenSSL 3.0. A new command-line option,
--openssl-legacy-provider, has been added to revert to the legacy
provider as a temporary workaround for these tightened restrictions.
Looks like a webpack issue. This is fixed in webpacl 5+ and we are on
webpack4 at the moment.
Solutions
Upgrade webpack.
Pin nodejs version to be 16.x.x
Use --openssl-legacy-provider as a workaround.
Pin docker version to alpine3.16 branch to have node16.x by default
ref:
https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/pull/5555#issuecomment-1379778532
* chore: update webmock
* chore: fix ruby gem path in dockerfile
* chore: switch to node16 in circleci
* chore: update ruby version in linux installer script
* chore: update ruby version in linux installer script
* chore: fix circleci
* chore: fix circleci
* feat: upgrade node version to 16.x in linux installer
* chore: update systemd files
Co-authored-by: Sojan Jose <sojan@chatwoot.com>
When a user mentions the connected Instagram page in a story, the story's content is downloaded in Chatwoot, then if the user deletes the story, the content persists in the platform.
fixes: #5258
Fixes: #5508
We can not read contact information because of this error, as the messages echo when the sender sends messages to contacts. We don't have the user's consent until and unless they send messages to us.
So after this result, information about the contact is empty, and we are trying to create a contact inbox for the same, and the error appears.
type: OAuthException, code: 230, message: (#230) User consent is required to access user profile, x-fb-trace-id: AaitxF/whwY [HTTP 403] (Koala::Facebook::ClientError)
- Ability to configure line bots as a channel in chatwoot
- Receive a message sent to the line bot in chatwoot
- Ability to reply to line users from chatwoot
fixes: #2738
- Ability to configure telegram bots as a channel in chatwoot
- Receive a message sent to the telegram bot in chatwoot
- Ability to reply to telegram users from chatwoot
- Receive attachment messages in chatwoot
fixes: #1843
