I'm building a telegram chatbot in nodejs that will work on webhook. Currently, bot hits my webhook URL with every message in chat. Is it possible to only push payload on command execution for the bot?
So I would like only to get the payload from the chat when the user executes /test command and any other messages in the chat should not git to my URL.
#Edit
Current setup of privacy
'Enable' - your bot will only receive messages that either start with the '/' symbol or mention the bot by username.
'Disable' - your bot will receive all messages that people send to groups.
Current status is: ENABLED
I want to use bot in groups and in direct chat with bot - me so I can test things.
I created a test group added the bot and whatever I type into the group I can see in logs of the Webhook URL. So no matter if its /test or some text it's beeing pushed
#Edit 2
This it what I receive in my webhook URL (normal chat text, and bot command)
{
"update_id": 1,
"channel_post": {
"message_id": 65,
"sender_chat": {
"id": -1,
"title": "Tssos",
"type": "channel"
},
"chat": {
"id": -1,
"title": "Tssos",
"type": "channel"
},
"date": 1,
"text": "test"
}
}
{
"update_id": 1,
"channel_post": {
"message_id": 67,
"sender_chat": {
"id": -1,
"title": "Tssos",
"type": "channel"
},
"chat": {
"id": -1,
"title": "Tssos",
"type": "channel"
},
"date": 1,
"text": "/test#TESTss_bot",
"entities": [
{
"offset": 0,
"length": 23,
"type": "bot_command"
}
]
}
}
You have to use #BotFather to set your bot privacy:
Send /mybots command to #BotFather
Select your bot by its username
Select Bot Settings
Select Group Privacy
Enable or disable your bot's privacy
If Privacy Mode is enabled, your bot only receive messages which are start with slash /
Alright, so I found the answer to my problem.
I was adding a bot as an administrator to the chat that's why he was sending all messages. Admins bot will push all chat messages.
Adding a bot like a normal user solved the issue and now I only receive /command updates.
Privacy mode is enabled by default for all bots, except bots that were
added to the group as admins (bot admins always receive all messages).
It can be disabled, so that the bot receives all messages like an
ordinary user (the bot will need to be re-added to the group for this
change to take effect). We only recommend doing this in cases where it
is absolutely necessary for your bot to work — users can always see a
bot's current privacy setting in the group members list. In most
cases, using the force reply option for the bot's messages should be
more than enough.
Docs
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I published a bot using the Azure bot framework to the Azure cloud servers, and made an application that uses the Direct Line API 3.0 to send user responses and receive bot messages through HTTP requests. Everything works except that I'm not sure how to get the starting message of the bot at the start of the conversation. I open the conversation with the /v3/directline/conversations endpoint, but I'm not sure how to receive the first message of the bot (that is normally sent without any user interaction). A message request after opening the conversation doesn't include any bot responses, but the next message request after sending the first user input includes the first two messages of the bot (starting message and response to the user).
EDIT: From reading this I came to the conclusion that it will be easier to just use a custom event as a trigger for the welcome message. I updated my bot as follows to reflect this within bot composer, adding a new CUSTOM event trigger with a test response message:
However, I still can't seem to trigger this event via the Direct Line API. Currently, I send a request as follows, following the event activity structure:
{
"type": "event",
"channelId": "directline",
"from": { "id": "UnityUserId", "name": "Unity User 1" },
"value": "test",
"name": "welcome"
}
I then get a response with ID, normally indicating that the request was successfull. However, upon requesting the bot response messages, I get the following:
{
"activities": [
{
"type": "event",
"id": "5FZsHpWBxm1hjhWQYY7gr-eu|0000000",
"timestamp": "2022-04-09T14:39:15.90169Z",
"serviceUrl": "https://directline.botframework.com/",
"channelId": "directline",
"from": {
"id": "UnityUserId",
"name": "Unity User 1"
},
"conversation": {
"id": "5FZsHpWBxm1hjhWQYY7gr-eu"
},
"value": "test",
"name": "welcome"
}
],
"watermark": "0"
}
Indicating that the bot has no responses, which doesn't seem quite right when looking at the bot composer screenshot above. Is there something wrong with my current method?
Regards
The onMembersAdded event usually does the trick. Sample code is in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-builder-send-welcome-message?view=azure-bot-service-4.0&tabs=csharp
I thought I remembered seeing the bot's welcome message when using Direct Line, so I tried to quickly repro it again. I connected a simple echo bot via Direct Line. Then I created a conversation, sent a simple message, and then retrieved all activities (all via REST calls), and the bot's welcome message was indeed present in the response, as you can see in this screenshot:
Perhaps you should use these Direct Line 3.0 API reference docs as opposed to the one you linked above. I followed these steps using the basic Echo bot sample, Postman, and a bot resource in Azure for simple and easy testing, but you could use a full application if you wish.
I guess this might be a stupid issue, solvable in a really easy way, but I'm really struggling.
I have the “old” chatbot, built in Dialogflow ES with 2 integrations (DF messenger, FB messenger). And because I set up 2 integrations I automatically have 2 tabs for responses available with every intent.
If I want to add a button, I need to use the Custom payload type of response. And since I have 2 different integrations which I need different code for, I need to set the custom payload for each of them (1 on every tab).
Custom payload for the DF messenger example:
{
"richContent": [
[
{
"icon": {
"color": "#F78A2D",
"type": "network_check"
},
"text": "Text on the button",
"type": "button",
"link": "https://www.example.com"
}
]
]
}
Custom payload for the FB messenger example with the similar functionality:
{
"facebook": {
"attachment": {
"type": "template",
"payload": {
"template_type": "button",
"buttons": [
{
"title": "Text on the button",
"url": "https://www.example.com",
"type": "web_url"
}
],
"text": "Required text"
}
}
}
}
Everything works as expected.
The issue
I want to achieve the same thing with Dialogflow CX.
I’ve set up same integrations (DF and FB messenger) and the first thing I noticed is that I don’t see any additional tab for FB messenger. Because I can’t find the separate FB tab I’ve been playing with the single Custom payload response and mixing both codes together (for DF messenger and FB messenger) with no success.
What I managed to do is:
If in this single Custom payload response I use just the code for DF messenger, it works with DF messenger as expected - the user gets the response with the button. The FB messenger just “ignores” the code and doesn’t show the button. The code:
{
"richContent": [
[
{
"icon": {
"color": "#F78A2D",
"type": "network_check"
},
"text": "Text on the button",
"type": "button",
"link": "https://www.example.com"
}
]
]
}
If I use just the code for the FB messenger, it works as expected - the user gets the response with the quick replies. The DF messenger just “ignores” the code and doesn’t show quick replies/chips. The code (different than in Dialogflow ES, but let’s start simple, using just quick replies :D):
{
"text": "Pick a color:",
"quick_replies":[
{
"content_type":"text",
"title":"Red",
"payload":"Red color"
},{
"content_type":"text",
"title":"Green",
"payload":"Green color"
}
]
}
And now we come to the problem. Because there’s no extra tab for FB messenger (as stated before) I’m trying to male things work by mixing both codes together. So the mixed code looks like this:
{
"richContent": [
[
{
"icon": {
"color": "#F78A2D",
"type": "network_check"
},
"text": "Text on the button",
"type": "button",
"link": "https://www.example.com"
}
]
],
"text": "Pick a color:",
"quick_replies":[
{
"content_type":"text",
"title":"Red",
"payload":"rdeč"
},{
"content_type":"text",
"title":"Green",
"payload":"zelen"
}
]
}
As you’d assume by now, this code works with DF messenger integration (the user gets the button), but it doesn’t work with FB integration (user doesn’t get the quick replies).
So the real questions are:
How do I get this to work?
Am I somewhere missing a different tab for FB messenger responses (similar to DF ES)?
Or is there just a thing or two missing inside the code?
Should I maybe use the conditional response aka “IF FB messenger integration THEN use FB
code ELSE use DF code”? If so, how can I check what integration is
being used at the moment by user?
Oh, BTW, does anyone have any quick link about how to debug the FB messenger integration? I'm familiar with the GCP Logs explorer, but I can't seem to find any FB related issues in those logs - I'm assuming they could help since the FB integration is not working as expected.
The answer I got on Google forum and which best describes the solution and is up to date:
The engineers are working on implementing using custom payloads for different integrations in a single agent for Dialogflow CX (LINK). You can subscribe to get automatic updates on the progress made on this feature request by selecting the star listed at the left side of the thread title.
In the meantime, a possible workaround would be to use different agents for the integrations.
EDIT: Just thought of another solution which I believe could be more than just a workaround and might actually stick around (maybe that's even the way Google imagined it). We could use the versioning in the way that we have different versions for different integrations. The only drawback worth mentioning and which I can see here is that we need to use all bot flows in all versions and therefore in all integrations. Which could be an issue if we want to use totally different communication flow for different integrations. The issue is kind of solvable by emptying flows for specific integrations (or not using/linking them at all), but on the other hand the totally different communication flow could also just simply mean a new agent.
Feel free to comment on this solution. I'm courious if you agree.
I have been dealing with this same issue. The best workaround I have found so far is to create two custom payloads (one using the syntax that works for Facebook messenger and the other one using the syntax that works for Dialogflow messenger for exemple). Then once you do the integrations, Facebook will ignore the payload of the Dialogflow messenger, but the one designed for Facebook will work. Dialogflow messenger will also ignore the payload for Facebook messenger but the correct one designed for DialogFlow messenger will work. I hope this helps. Payload for Fb messenger and DF messenger on the same page
I want my slack bot to edit the original message (basically modify it).To trigger bot i would like to use an emoticon.
so the flow would be user post the message -> if user wants to use bot press a reaction -> once bot is triggered modify or edit the message with the custom content of bot.
for trigger i think this the API i would need https://api.slack.com/methods/reactions.get but is this even possible?
The api you have mentioned is for fetching the reactions associated with a message/post.
What you actually need is an event to be captured when a reaction is added to the message.
Here is the api that solves the purpose:
https://api.slack.com/events/reaction_added
You can now implement the business logic based on the event payload.
Sample Payload:
{
"type": "reaction_added",
"user": "U024BE7LH",
"reaction": "thumbsup",
"item_user": "U0G9QF9C6",
"item": {
"type": "message",
"channel": "C0G9QF9GZ",
"ts": "1360782400.498405"
},
"event_ts": "1360782804.083113"
}
To update the message, you can use chat.update api:
https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.update
you'll need : token: 'bot token' or 'user token' with required chat:write scope channel & timestamp details : you can find in payload of 'reaction_added' payload.
Note:
You cannot edit a message sent by another user, unless you have the 'User token'. https://api.slack.com/authentication/token-types#user
I am creating a simple bot using Azure LUIS and this is my first one. I made some decent progress after doing some research and also now integrated with Slack as channel to test it.
The bot functionality is working fine, but I am looking to identify the user. So that I can personalize the bot conversation and also to pull the user specific information from his profile table.
Is there anyway, that I can get a UID or any reference ID of the slack user and so I can store that in my user table along with user profile?
So next time, when the user greets the bot, the bot can say "Hello, John." instead of justing say "Hello."
Thanks!
Yes. You can use the channelData object to get the ApiToken, and user values. For example, in C#, you could use turnContext.Activity.ChannelData to get those values in JSON:
{{
"SlackMessage": {
"token": "............",
"team_id": "<TEAM ID>",
"event": {
"type": "message",
"text": "thanks",
"user": "<USER WHO MESSAGED>",
"channel": "............",
"channel_type": "channel"
},
"type": "event_callback",
"event_id": ""............",
"event_time": 1553119134,
"authed_users": [
"............",
"<USER WHO MESSAGED>"
]
},
"ApiToken": "<ACTUAL TOKEN HERE>"
}}
Then, using those two pieces of information, you can then retrieve info from Slack.
https://slack.com/api/users.info?token=<ACTUAL TOKEN HERE>&user=<USER WHO MESSAGED>&pretty=1
And get a response that has the info you need:
{
"ok": true,
"user": {
"id": "<USER WHO MESSAGED>",
"team_id": "<TEAM ID>",
"real_name": "Dana V",
Ideally, you would would probably want to have bot user state setup and check that first, then if not there, then make the API call to Slack, then store in state. Therefore further requests don't need to go to Slack, but will just pull from the state store.
Basically, you could/should do this in the onTurn event. First, create your user state storage such as here.
Then you could check for that value and write to it if not populated. This example on simple prompts, might be helpful. You won't need to prompt for your user's name, as this example does, but does read/write username from state. You could still use dialogs, but you won't need them for the name prompting as you are doing that dynamically.
You can see here where username is being set and here where it is being retrieved. In this case, it is in the dialogs, but again; you would/could just do in the turn context (using logic to get and if not there, set).
I found the solution by priting the whole session object, which is having all the required informaiton. This could be same as mentioned by Dana above, but after debugging, this follwing made simple without making any changes.
var slackID = session.message.address.user.id
With above, I am able to identify the user.
Thanks.
I am connecting Actions on Google (on my Android) to my webhook via API.AI
When a user orders, say pizza online, API.AI creates a fallback intent and the webhook sends a json with Carousel.
This works fine. If user clicks on Carousel item, the response is sent to webhook too.
I am responding to that click by asking "How many pizzas" and use a suggestion chip.
However, no fallback intent is activated in API.AI and the app crashes.
Earlier, I was giving a simple text response to carousel select "Thanks for the order" and it was working.
Can someone help me solve this problem?
I realize that the problem is not in API.AI or fallback intent but in JSON I am sending. If I reply to user's selection in Carousel with a simple text/speech response it works. It also works if I send a Carousel chip again. However, if I try to send a list or card, it crashes. Perhaps, I don't have right json formatting for them.
If someone has any json sent by their webhook (working with API.AI) for list/suggestion chip or card, it would be very helpful!
#matthewayne When I send the following as a reply (json), it works:
speech = "Thank you. People also looked at these:"
print(speech)
webhook_result={
"speech": speech,
"contextOut": [
{
"name": "_actions_on_google_,complementary",
"lifespan": 100,
"parameters": {}
}
],
"data": {
"google": {
"expectUserResponse": True,
"richResponse": {
"items": [
{
"simpleResponse": {
"textToSpeech": speech
}
}
],
"suggestions": []
},
"systemIntent": {
"intent": "actions.intent.OPTION",
"data": {
"#type": "type.googleapis.com/google.actions.v2.OptionValueSpec",
"carouselSelect": {}
}
}
}
}
}
I also populate carouselSelect with list of things in carousel. But if I change it to listSelect, and respond, it crashes.
When I say crash, it means that Google says that my app has stopped responding.
It would be very helpful to have a template or sample listResponse json.
After a carousel response is sent to the user the next request that will be sent will likely be a list selection event. You need to handle this either:
in API.AI (by creating an intent with the event actions_intent_OPTION, docs here)
or
in your webhook using the Google Assistant client library (docs here).