pythonchatbot

Requirements

You need python 3.6 or 3.7 and pip

How to run

1. pip install -r requirements.txt
2. pip install flask
3. On Mac: FLASK_APP=application.py flask run. On Window: set FLASK_APP=application.py && flask run
4. Then go to http://localhost:5000/api/train to train data
5. http://localhost:5000/api/messages?q=Hi to test
6. You can use MS Bot Framework Emulator to test it as well. Use URL: http://localhost:5000/api/messages to connect if you want to test it locally.

How to deploy it to Azure

Manual steps:

1. Create Azure account. You will need valid credit card for it.
2. Create resource group: e.g. "BotGroup"
3. Create Bot Channels Registration
4. Get APP_ID and APP_SECRET from Bot Channels' Settings under Microsoft App Id.
5. Create App Service with python
6. Use Deployment Center and select your source code from github
7. Select App Service build service
8. Add APP_ID and APP_SECRET to Configuration > Application settings > New application setting
9. Go back to Bot Channels' Settings and update Endpoint URL e.g. https://pythonchatbot.azurewebsites.net/api/messages

Automation steps via Azure CLI:

1. Install azure-cli
2. az login
3. open az_deploy.sh and update gitrepo, webappname and group

gitrepo=https://github.com/huan-mai/pythonchatbot/
webappname=pythonchatbot1
group=BotGroup1

4. chmod +x ./az_deploy.sh
5. ./az_deploy.sh

How to integrate bot to Slack

Follow this article to integrate the bot to Slack.

Notes:

• We can ignore "Add and Configure Interactive Messages" and "Create an Add to Slack button" step
• For {YourBotHandle} field in "Subscribe to Bot Events" step, we can grab it from Settings screen of the Bot Channels Registration

Troubleshooting

1. If you get [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed error when running pip install command, download the pem file from http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem, then run the command with --cert parameter. Example: pip --cert /path/to/cacert.pem install linkchecker (Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25981703/pip-install-fails-with-connection-error-ssl-certificate-verify-failed-certi/26062583)