# Messenger Referral

MyLINK Connect Facebook channel fully supports the Facebook Referral link format. This enables your chatbot to automatically present your user with different informations depending on a specific keyword added to your chat link.

## Building the chat link

A standard Facebook chat link would look something like this:

```
http://m.me/<PAGE_NAME>
```

Where \<PAGE\_NAME> is the name of your page. To build a referral link, you just add the referral parameter at the end of the link like this:

```
http://m.me/<PAGE_NAME>?ref=<REF_PARAM>
```

The \<REF\_PARAM> value can be anything you like and it is going to be the value your bot will be looking for.

{% hint style="info" %}
If your page does not have a unique name, the \<PAGE\_NAME> may not work. Use the page id instead: the page id can be retrieved by going into your page settings and selecting the "Messaging" menu section.
{% endhint %}

## Checking for a referral

Inside your chatbot, the referral (ref) value will be translated to a simple text. For your chatbot it will be like the user has typed the referral value. You can check this value anywhere in the chatbot by simply using a [global text detection operation](https://docs.mylinkconnect.com/actions-and-operations/input/global-detection).&#x20;

![](https://content.gitbook.com/content/tZEstFBYh3uMutlup6ku/blobs/93BMBbD07CabYukfNAYm/image.png)

## Further Reading

{% embed url="<https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/discovery/m-me-links/>" %}