I am new for action for Google, and I want a help. I want to create a chatbot and wanna use actions on Google API for this, I came across certain blogs but I can not understand how to setup this thing and local and make use of actions on Google API's in a productive way. I have read the documentation but nothing seems to be work in a desired manner. Please help me with initial steps where I could begin with.
I think you should read the documents properly. Here's the correct address for developing actions :- https://developers.google.com/actions/apiai/
This is the perfect document, if you will use API.ai. If you want to learn faster then you have to watch videos. Here is the link for the basic video.
This is the basic video you need to watch :- https://youtu.be/5Al0bfCF-xA
I think this video will help you alot. If still you need some more help for building apps, do reply we will help !
You can test it on your local server by opening up a port on your wifi router and and forward that port to you server ip and port. However, you still https call from api.ai to your local server.
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Bots are amazing, unless you're Google Analytics
After many months of learning to host my own Discord bot, I finally figured it out! I now have a node server running on my localhost that sends and receives data from my Discord server; it works great. I can do all kinds of the things I want to with my Discord bot.
Given that I work with analytics everyday, one project I want to figure out is how to send data to Google Analytics (specifically GA4) from this node server.
NOTE: I have had success in sending data to my Universal Analytics property. However, as awesome as that was to finally see pageviews coming into, it was equally heartbreaking to recall that Google will be getting rid of Universal Analytics in July of this year.
I have tried the following options:
GET/POST requests to the collect endpoint
This option presented itself as impossible from the get-go. In order to send a request to the collection endpoint, a client_id must be sent along with the request itself. And this client_id is something that must be generated using Google's client id algorithm. So, I can't just make one up.
If you consider this option possible, please let me know why.
Install googleapis npm package
At first, I thought I could just install the googleapis package and be ready to go, but that idea fell on its face immediately too. With this package, I can't send data to GA, I can only read with it.
Find and install a GTM npm package
There are GTM npm packages out there, but I quickly found out that they all require there to be a window object, which is something my node server would not have because it isn't a browser.
How I did this for Universal Analytics
My biggest goal is to do this without using Python, Java, C++ or any other low level languages. Because, that route would require me to learn new languages. Surely it's possible with NodeJS alone... no?
I eventually stumbled upon the idea of actually hosting a webpage as some sort of pseudo-proxy that would send data from the page to GA when accessed by something like a page scraper. It was simple. I created an HTML file that has Google Tag Manager installed on it, and all I had to do was use the puppeteer npm package.
It isn't perfect, but it works and I can use Google Tag Manager to handle and manipulate input, which is wonderful.
Unfortunately, this same method will not work for GA4 because GA4 automatically excludes all identified bot traffic automatically, and there is no way to turn that setting off. It is a very useful feature for GA4, giving it quite a bit more integrity than UA, and I'm not trying to get around that fact, but it is now the Bane of my entire goal.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9888366?hl=en
Where to go from here?
I'm nearly at the end of my wits on figuring this one out. So, either an npm package exists out there that I haven't found yet, or this is a futile project.
Does anyone have any experience in sending data from NodeJS to GA4? (or even GTM?) How did you do it?
...and this client_id is something that must be generated using Google's client id algorithm. So, I can't just make one up...
Why, of course you can. GA4 generates it pretty much the same as UA does. You don't need anything from google to do it.
Besides, instead of mimicking just requests to the collect endpoint, you may just wanna go the MP route right away: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/ga4 The links #dockeryZ gave, work perfectly fine. Maybe try opening them in incognito, or in a different browser? Maybe you have a plugin blocking analytics urls.
Moreover, you don't really need to reinvent the bicycle. Node already has a few packages to send events to GA4, here's one looking good: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ga4-mp?activeTab=readme
Or you can just use gtag directly to send events. I see a lot of people doing it even on the front-end: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ga-gtag Gtag has a whole api not described in there. Here's more on gtag: https://developers.google.com/tag-platform/gtagjs/reference Note how the library allows you to set the client id there.
The only caveat there is that you'll have to track client ids and session ids manually. Shouldn't be too bad though. Oh, and you will have to redefine the concept of a pageview, I guess. Well, the obvious one is whenever people post in the chan that is different from the previous post in a session. Still, this will have to be defined in the code.
Don't worry about google's bot traffic detection. It's really primitive. Just make sure your useragent doesn't scream "bot" in it. Make something better up.
What I Heard :
WebHooks : They are just HTTP POST and not a new protocol or any new Technology . Let me put it in an example. Lets say we want to watch a directory for any changes and ping the user whenever anything is changed. I write a C# code watching the directory for changes and when something happens, I do an HTTP POST to let the user know something is changed and it might interest you.
Azure Functions: The best way i can explain you is hosting bits and pieces of reusable code online and hitting them via HTTP call whenever needed and not worrying about infrastructure or any supporting platform.
What I want to know:
Why is the name WebHook making so much noise , i mean its very clear and straight forward programming that you do to tell your users that something happened via some API calls or event listeners.
Can someone please make me understand these Terminologies if I got them in a wrong way and also some examples might help me along with your explanation.
A few days ago, I was playing around with a local API(not Google) and it required me to provide a Redirect Uri while trying to setup my app in their dashboard.
I did some googling and top searches led me to oAuth2.0 and Google Developer's website. But this API I'm using is not related with any of Google's so I thought it won't be relevant.
Is the setup of Redirect Uri for most APIs universal or almost the same? What programming languages can I use to implement this?
The description also says I need to parse a subscriber_number and access_token in JSON format. How do I do that?
Please note that I have already found a free hosting site via Firebase and have provided my own link. I also did the initial steps from another user to fire the required access_token that I needed to parse from the Redirect Uri. But accessing it from the browser right after triggering doesn't give me anything. I'm so clueless. Any help is much appreciated!
Dummy question here but I haven't found any answer on the web for now.
I'm working on a cakephp website, installed on a Raspberry Pi, which is supposed to be able to connect wireless-ly through a local network to an Arduino YUN, get its components list.
For example :
"A LED is connected on ports :
Input : 2,
Output : 6;
and is currently on"
And change the input value :
"turn the LED off"
I'm not supposed to reload the webpage to see the change occurring.
So I figured out I needed NodeJS to send/receive the informations with websockets but I don't know how to connect NodeJS -running on its own webserver- to cakephp.
I'm a complete rookie with NodeJS, just did a few tutorials earlier, so I'm stuck here.
Does anyone know how to deal with this ?
Thanks in advance,
There are a few different libraries you can use to connect to the node server.
http://elephant.io/
https://github.com/bergie/dnode-php
You can, of course, just fall back to sending http requests (curl) from your cakephp app to the node server.
I have a few discoveries to add that may help some people.
While searching more deeply on DNode and elephant.io I found a cakePHP plugin called cake_websocket which make use of socket.io.
Seems to me that it is an equivalent to elephant.io specialized in cakePHP (while elephant.io is 'just' PHP).
I hope it can help someone !
Instead of using any library.
You can try iframe tag with src to your 'node.js' view.html.
So, listen for events on view.html which are triggered from your 'cakephp' view.html
So, you will have cakephp->view.html talking to node.js->view.html which is connected to node.js->index.js(server)
I just want to be able to create a playlist by sending / receiving http requests ( a standalone web app, not with Spotify Apps and the desktop client). I've dug around the docs and can't find a clear solution. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.
You can pass a list of songs—not a playlist—to the desktop player by adding the track ids to a link as below
Play
UPDATE
As of today there is an api for creating playlists: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/create-playlist/
I just want to be able to create a playlist by sending / receiving
http requests
This isn't possible at the moment — Spotify doesn't have a web API for manipulating playlists. You may be able to hack a solution together using libSpotify, although using libSpotify in a server service this way is against the ToS.
You might want to look at https://github.com/liesen/spotify-api-server
It is limited to just one spotify account (the one you configure it with) but does allow playlist creation/manipulation via RESTish calls.