Liberry club is Team Resource management in a Slack-friendly Bot format. Using API.ai's natural language processor, you can ask Liberry to create and manage the status of the physical objects in your environment.
Liberry is a slack-native chatbot built to understand your team's available shared resources and to to enable a friendly interface to help track down what's available at work, among friends, club members or neighbors.
As a librarian, our robot can understand a variety of commands (thanks to API.ai) to allow you to register a sharable resource, check it out, check on the status, or return it for others to use.
At wok, someone might bring in a book for others to borrow. Liberry can help you out:
Bert> @liberry: create resource "The Thing Explainer" liberry> Ok, "The Thing Explainer is available to check out"
Ernie> @liberry: borrow "The Thing Explainer" liberry> @Ernie: It's yours
Bert> @liberry: Who has The Thing explainer? @liberry> @Ernie checked out The Thing Explainer 2 minutes ago
Bert> @liberry: checkout QA @liberry> Ok. @Bert is using QA
API.ai is a great tool for building a dialog system like this. It let us map the casual language we use around the office into formal commands our robot can understand.
Bert> @liberry how can you help me?
@liberry: I have four primary commands... the CRUD of lending.
Create a sharable resource,
Read the state of the resoure or resources
Update (Checkout, return) an item
Delete ( take your resoure out of the borrowing pool)
Api.ai Slack integration allows you to create Slack bots with natural language understanding based on Api.ai technology.
We forked his from https://github.com/xVir/api-ai-slack-bot
To stop the bot from running in the interactive mode, press CTRL+C.
In the background mode, you can control the bot’s state via simple commands:
If you want to customize your bot behavior, follow the steps below.
- Clone the repository https://github.com/kelfink/liberry.git
On Heroku, setup up these environment variables in your configuration
To run locally, do the same, and run 'sh ./startup.sh' to start the server.