Kanto train info chatbot

Simple chatbot for grabbing Kanto train information using facebook messenger platform.

Setup

Node.js

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential

Mongodb

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 2930ADAE8CAF5059EE73BB4B58712A2291FA4AD5
echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.6.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

Facebook messenger Platform

• Create a facebook page
• Create a facebook application
• Add Messenger product to the application
• Generate a page access token for the application

Project setup

• Clone this project

git clone https://github.com/qmau-me/kanto-rosen.git

• Set the appSecret and pageAccessToken in config/default.json with page access token and app secret from application admin dashboard.

• Set a validationToken for webhook validation.
• Replace values for APP_ID and PAGE_ID in public/index.html.

Run

• Run the project

npm install
node app.js

• Start MongoDB

sudo service start mongod

• Follow those steps to use ngrok setting up an reachable endpoint for the Facebook messenger.
• Config webhook endpoint with https link from the ngrok terminal

ngrok http 5000

• Subscribed to created page
• Enjoy the chatbot on messenger page

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via Gfycat

Command list

• help: show all chatbot options
  • list: list all subscribed line
  • unsub: chose to delete a line from the subscribed line list

License

See the LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. Feel free to use and modify the code.