Retrieving/Generating a Messenger Code

[efexen]

Investigate if there is a way for us to retrieve or generate the messenger code and expose it as a Rails view helper

[derblub]

Any progress on this topic?

[efexen]

Hey @derblub,

Haven't had a chance to look at this yet no unfortunately but happy for you to work on this if you're interested 👍

Thanks,
Ville

[derblub]

I've started investigating already.
Unfortunately, there are no official ways to generate or read those circular qr codes.
One good thing: Kik where first with those, and their Android App can be decompiled more easily than the fb-messenger. I've extracted CPP libraries for scanning and generating codes, but didn't have more time to investigate further yet.
I've also started/forked this project here.
And here you can see a deployed version - not much functionality, at this point.

[efexen]

Great, looks far more involved than I originally thought! Seems silly of FB not to release some libs or specs for it.

If you come up with a good solution you're happy with I'd much appreciate it if you could let me know or open a PR so we can leverage it here 😄 Hoping to find a bit of time soon to look into this and will keep an eye on your repo 👍

[derblub]

👍
Will let you know if I (we) make any progress - unfortunately I've some busy days ahead. Hoping to have some spare time on weekend, to play around a little more again :)