Is it possible create bots for iMessage?

Question

I'm exploring possibilities of creating a Bot for iMessages. I went through the "Messages SDK" provided by Apple for iMessage extensions and didn't find any leads.

Android has Telephony(https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Telephony) which I could use as a starting point. But I couldn't find anything similar on iOS.

If anyone knows how I could achieve this, it would be of great help.

Answer 1

You might want to check out Jared, an open-source iMessage chatbot which reads from the message database. https://github.com/ZekeSnider/Jared

Answer 2

You could check out https://sendblue.co

Here is their documentation: https://docs.sendblue.co

I assume you can send and receive iMessages by simply hitting their endpoint with a post request, like so:

const url = `https://api.sendblue.co/api/send-message` ;

axios.post(url, {
        number: '+19998887777',
        content: 'Hello world!',
        statusCallback: 'https://example.com/message-status/1234abcd',
    },
    headers: {
        "sb-api-key-id": << apiKey >> ,
        "sb-api-secret-key": << apiSecret >>
    },
}).then(response => {
    console.log(response.data);
}).catch(error => {
    console.error(error);
});

You can receive iMessages by registering a webhook with them.

Cheers