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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Basically, Matrix becomes your everything chat client! Also, the Facebook Messenger backend might get you rate-limited on login attempts if you restart the bridge too often, which will lock you out of your Facebook account asking you to recover your account and change your password. +See below for information on how to avoid this situation. Current features: @@ -72,3 +73,24 @@ a dictionnary whose keys are the following: ### Storage configuration - `db_type` and `db_path`: the database backend and path to use (see the [Gorm documentation](http://gorm.io/docs/connecting_to_the_database.html)) + + +## Facebook Messenger alternative login procedure + +The default login proedure for the Messenger backend is to log in with your email and password each time +Easybridge starts. Unfortunately, if Easybridge restarts too often, this will get you rate limited on login +attempts quite rapidly. To bypass this issue, the Messenger backend provides the ability to login +using a *client pickle*, i.e. a serialized client that contains all of the cookies obtained during a single +initial login procedure, so that further logins are not required any longer. + +To generate your client pickle, run the following command: + +``` +./external/messenger.py create_client_pickle +``` + +This procedure will ask for your email and password and attempt to log you in to Facebook. +If it succeeds, it will print several dozen lines of data looking like `eJyVVlt....X9cgyfgY7mJaK`. +Then, when configuring the Messenger backend in Easybridge, *do not enter your password*. +Instead, enter the obtained client pickle string in the appropriate field. + |