Getting Started with Line​

LINE is a popular communication app that lets you stay connected with friends, family, and colleagues anytime, anywhere. With LINE, you can make free voice and video calls, send instant messages, share photos, videos, stickers, and more — all for free over the internet. 

Prerequisites

• A Line app is installed on your mobile device.
• A developer account in the LINE Developers console.
• Created a dedicated Messaging API channel for your bot.

Connecting Line to OttoKit

To connect your Line account to OttoKit, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the LINE Developers Console.

2. Click the “Create a New Provider” button to add a new provider.

3.  In the next pop-up, enter a name for your provider and click the “Create” button.

4. You’ve now created a provider, but it doesn’t have any messaging channels yet. To add one, click the “Create a Messaging API Channel” option on the current page.

5. Please note, as mentioned on the page, it’s no longer possible to create Messaging API channels directly from the LINE Developers Console. To create a Messaging API channel, you must first create a LINE Official Account. To do this, click the “Create a LINE Official Account” button.

6. Next, fill in all the required details to create your LINE Official Account. Once completed, click the “Continue” button, and on the following page, click the “Submit” button to finalize the process.

7. Now your LINE Official Account is ready. To manage it, click on the “Go to LINE Official Account Manager” button.

8. The next step is to enable the Messaging API. To do this, go to your Account Manager and navigate to Settings > Messaging API. On that page, click the “Enable Messaging API” button.

9. Next, in the “Select Provider” popup, choose the provider you created earlier and then click the “Agree” button.

10. Now you can see that the Messaging API channel status is enabled. You’ll also find a field to add an Outgoing Webhook. Here, you can paste the webhook URL from our trigger flyout. Once you save the webhook, your trigger will run whenever a related Messaging API event occurs.

11. Now, go back to the Developer Console home page, select your provider, and then choose the messaging channel you just created.

12. Next, click on the “Messaging API” tab.

13. Now, scroll down a bit, and you will see the previously added webhook displayed there. If you want to send data to this webhook, meaning you want your trigger workflow to run and capture data from live events, you need to turn on the “Use Webhook” toggle. This ensures that every time an event occurs, the data will be sent to this webhook.

14. Then scroll down to the “Channel access token” section and click the “Issue” button to generate the Channel Access Token.

15. Copy the Channel Access Token and paste it while connecting to the app.

16. That’s it! You’ve successfully completed the connection setup for the LINE app in OttoKit. Enjoy automating your workflows!