This webhook will provide info about BMW cars models.
This webhook service is built with Google dialogflow-fulfillment library and with SailsJS
- Sign up for or sign into Dialogflow and create a agent
- Go to your agent's settings and Restore from zip using the dialogflow-agent.zip in this directory (Note: this will overwrite your existing agent)
- Then go to fulfillment and insert the following Webhook URL:
https://webhook-bmw-models.herokuapp.com/api/bmwmodels - input something like "I want info about The BMW 6 Series Gran Turismo" or "give me info about The BMW 3 Series"
run SailsJS with
$ npm install
$ node app.js
Your service will be available on http://localhost:1337
the webhook is available at the URI path /api/bmwmodels
BUT
Due the fact your webhook must be obviously hosted on a public address, you cannot use localhost, you shall instead use a public instance. So you should redeploy your service each time you do a change, if you want save time you can use the continuous integration with a platform like heroku. But you spend few second to commit every changes :)
So why don't create a temp link public address with the HTTP tunnelling with ngrok? open another terminal and intall & execute ngrok
$ npm install ngrok -g
$ ngrok http 1337
(the port is the same of the SailsJS process )
You will obtain an univocal address like "http://code_alphanumeric.ngrok.io" that will point to your local server instance, this will save you a lot of time.
Copy the nkrok address (http://code_alphanumeric.ngrok.io/api/bmwmodels) and use it in your dialogflow Fulfillment/Webhook section.
Another suggestion is tu use nodemon to run your sailsJS app, so at each change you will have your app automatically redeployed,
so
$ npm install -g nodemon
$ nodemon app.js
NodeJS server will be up on http://localhost:1337 exposing your SailsJS app
you have done.
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