Build messenger bot using api.ai

1. Build your First Bot
Chennai AI & Chatbot Meetup

2. Chennai AI & Chatbot Meetup
• Meetup group for
• Artificial Intelligence
• NLP
• Chatbot
• Volunteers
• Speakers

3. About Me
• Founder of getstarted.guru
• An elearning platform for AI, NLP and Chatbots

4. Agenda
• Basic Concept of ChatBot
• Build a your own Bot
• Basic concepts of api.ai
• Setup your Development Environment
• Sample Code (node.js)

5. Why Bot?
• Facebook Messenger platform - April 2016
• Microsoft Bot Framework – March 2016
• Google Allo
• IBM Watson Dialougue API
• Telegram Bot Platform

6. What is a Bot?
Messenger Bot Developers Meetup
• DemoBot

7. What is a Bot?
• Read Message
• Process the
Message
• Respond back
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8. • Read Message
• Respond back
Your App NLP EngineMessenger
• Process
Message
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Webhook
Graph API

9. Steps
• Create a FB Page
• Create a FB App
• Enable Messenger in FB App and Copy Page Access Token
• Log in to api.ai and create an Agent
• Api.ai - > Enable “Small Talk” and Switch it ON.
• Agent Settings - > Integrations - > Messeger
• Provide token String, Page Access Token and Start the App.
• Copy Webhook URL, Go to Facebook App, Enter Webhook URL,
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10. api.ai JSON
• Intent: response.result.metadata.intentname
• action : response.result.action
• parameters: response.result.parameters.<param>
• Response Text: response.result.fulfillment.speech
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11. Setup Development Environment
• Download ngrok (https://ngrok.com)
• Sign up for ngrok
• Run ngrok on your localhost (It will give you an https URL that points
exposes your app to internet)
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12. Sample Code
• https://github.com/getstartedguru/messengerbot
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13. Chatbot Platforms
• Api.ai
• Wit.ai
• Chatfuel
• Botsify
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14. We are Hiring
• Drop your resumes to hello@getstarted.guru

15. THANK YOU
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16. Course Content
• Messenger Platform
• Webhook
• Subscription Options
• Text Message
• Structured Message
• api.ai
• Intents
• Entities
• Context
• Logs
• Integration