snips-action-places

Snips action code for the Places app

Setup

sh setup.sh

Don't forget to edit the config.ini file.

To be able to make calls to the API, you must have a Google Places API key.

An assistant containing the intents listed below must be installed on your system. Deploy it following these instructions.

Run

• Dev mode:

# Dev mode watches for file changes and restarts the action.
npm run dev

• Prod mode:

# 1) Lint, transpile and test.
npm start
# 2) Run the action.
npm run launch

Test & Demo cases

This app only supports french 🇫🇷 and english 🇬🇧.

CheckAround

Get local businesses around

Get details about places in the surroundings

Hey Snips, is there any top rated sushi place in this area? Hey Snips, is there a gas station that is open nearby?

FindContact

Get the contact details of a given local business

Get the phone number of a given place

Hey Snips, can you tell me the phone number for the most popular spanish restaurant in Beaver Street?

Get the address of a given place

Hey Snips, what's the address of the closest Domino's Pizza?

CheckDistance

Get the distance to a given local business

Get the distance to the given place

Hey Snips, how far away is the best rated park?

CheckHours

Get the opening hours of a given local business

Get the opening hours of the given place

Hey Snips, is the pharmacy below open this weekend?

Debug

In the src/index.ts file:

// Uncomment this line to print everything
// debug.enable(name + ':*')

Test & Lint

Requires mosquitto to be installed.

npm start

In test mode, i18n output and http calls are mocked.

• http: mocks are written in tests/httpMocks/index.ts
• i18n: mocked by snips-toolkit, see the documentation.

Contributing

Please see the Contribution Guidelines.

Copyright

This library is provided by Snips as Open Source software. See LICENSE for more information.