There is an API available online that responds with a number (number of points) when you submit a GET request to a certain URL.
I'd like my Google Home to say this information when I ask it to. I have attempted to do this with DialogFlow but I'm not sure how I would go about doing it.
EDIT: I used the DialogFlow fulfillment webhook feature. DialogFlow sends a post request to my webserver and the server responds with "fulfillmentText" which is what the Google Home will say.
There is nothing built-into Google Home that will get information out of the page at a URL.
You can write a program that will be triggered by the Assistant using Actions on Google. This includes something that would run through Dialogflow, or it could run through the Actions SDK. Either way - you would do this by writing a program that would be called in a webhook to fetch the data and return a message that would be read by the Assistant on your Home.
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I am using dialog flow to create an agent. When I try to embed it in my website, it gives me following error, "Cannot display response in Dialogflow simulator. Please test on the Google Assistant simulator instead.". It works perfectly fine in Google Assistant Simulator. I have seen people embed in their websites, but I don't know what I did different.
Any help would be appreciated.Code1 Code2 Code3 Code4
The expected output is a conversation between user and agent.Screenshot of my web page Screenshot of Dialog Flow Console
Okay, judging by the screenshots you added, you are trying to send a Google Assistant specific response to Dialogflow. In your welcome intent you are returning an Permissions object. This is something that only works for the Google Assistant. The web demo that you are trying to embed into your website doesn't support Google Assistant specific objects.
If you want to use the webdemo try sending only texts messages back to your user by using conv.ask("Your response") and conv.close("Your response") or give a response specific for Dialogflow. You can do this by either checking the request in code and sending a different text only response for Dialogflow users or you can create a Dialogflow only response in the Dialogflow console. Dialogflow responses are refered to as Default on the console.
1) Is setting up webhook necessary to save json data of a context shared between players of context?
2) How to validate callback url for webhook on facebook developer console? My game is already live on facebook for single player. (No local testing)
3) Can I use my own personal https url to setup webhook?
No, you do not need to use the webhook to save context data. You can use XMLHttpRequest, fetch or a JavaScript SDK for a service like Playfab or Firebase to store data. In fact, we wouldn't even recommend you use a webhook for saving data because if the player turns off messages from your bot you will not receive any webhook callbacks.
You can validate a callback URL using the developer dashboard, including the "Show Recent Errors" button, which is really useful for spotting any issues. You can also get more information from the Webhooks item on the left nav.
You may need to clarify what you mean by "your own personal https url". As long as Facebook can hit your webhook URL, everything will work. You cannot, for example use a localhost URL.
I'm trying to create a chatbot for use in a chat app I've created. I basically need the chatbot to send me replies that have message templates like in facebook messenger. For example, If I type in "what's the weather like", I want my chatbot's reply to look like facebook's media template, linked here: Media Template
Does anyone have any tutorials or links I can follow?
Thank you in advance.
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Usavaully work flow of chat application as follows,
Message providers(Facebook, twitter,slack etc..) receives messages from user
Message is sent to the configured endpoint(your webserver) according to the settings provided in the face book developer page reference
In the webserver you classify the intent prepares the response according to the request and sends the responses back.
So in the 3rd point web server you give responses based on the platform you are responding to reference, since in your case it's your own platform you need to design your own UI based on the response format or you can use some predefined html templates.
I hope answer gave some direction to work on.
I have a Actions on Google project that uses api.ai for its actions. This is working well and I can see request/responses appear on the google assistant interface (On mobiles and simulator)
One of my usecases for api.ai needs to broken into 2 parts, in that we have to inform the user that the processing has started and then inform them again once its completed (without them reprompting for the output).
Im trying for a way to inform the user who is using the Google assistant when the processing is completed, but have failed so far. Something like this
User: I would like to see if my loan request is approved
Google Assistant: Hold on, let me check and let u know .
.... (Makes a webservice call to the backend asynchronously)
.... After few seconds ...
.... Postback to google assistant from the webservice
Google Assistant: Thanks for holding, your request is approved.
Im not sure how to do the "postback to google assistant" call. I have tried to get the SessionId from the Api.AI call and then use that to make a event request , but that doesnt seem to send the response to the assistant. Google Assistant seems to be using the formats defined in https://developers.google.com/actions/reference/rest/Shared.Types/AppRequest, but Im unsure how to get the ConversationToken and use that for sending the response back to the user.
Short answer: you can't do that.
Slightly longer answer: At least right now, there is no good way to send a notification. Your Action can only respond to a specific statement from the user. You can say something like "ask again in a minute and I should have a result for you", but that isn't a great experience. At Google I/O 2017, they announced that notifications would be coming to the Google Home at some point... but gave neither a time frame nor any information about an API.
Long, but probably still unsatisfying answer: You can look into Transactions which let them initiate purchase or request of some sort and then "check out". Once they have checked out, you would confirm that a transaction is being processed with an OrderUpdates and then can send updates with the status of the "order". These status updates can turn into notifications or user's can query the state of the order at any time. Transactions don't require payment, so this may work depending on your needs.
However, there are a few things to note. This is still in developer preview, so things may change in the future. It also doesn't work on all surfaces where the Assistant runs, so while it does work on Assistant on phones, it does not work on the Google Home right now.
I have built a small conversational bot using API.AI with Node.js as the back end. So every time a user makes a request it goes to my server and then from my server to API.Ai and it follows the same route with a response.
Now, I want to integrate it with Google Actions. But, Google Actions allows me to use API.AI as my webhook whereas I want Google Actions to talk to my server.
I have checked everywhere and can't find the correct process. Any, help will be appreciated in Integrating Actions with custom webhook instead of API.API
The normal way it would work would be to have the Google servers for the Assistant talk to API.AI, and then API.AI would call your webhook. This lets API.AI do all of the natural language processing (NLP) and not have you attempt to write this part yourself to load into the Actions console.
Your API.AI project and your Action project need to be the same - if not, you can create a new Action project using the same project as API.AI, or you can export the contents of your API.AI project and import it into a new one.
Your API.AI project also needs to have the Actions on Google Integration turned on. From the left menu, select Integrations and then the Actions on Google tile and turn it on.
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If you want to send things through your server, and then have your server call the API.AI API yourself, you can certainly do this. You would develop against the Actions SDK and provide an actions.json file which describes the intents and webhook to use.