A Star Wars RPG bot with Bot Connector by Recast.AI!

• You can find all the step to build this boat on this article

Set up your Recast.AI account

Create your bot

• Log in to your Recast.AI account
• Create a new bot

Get your token

• In your profile, click your bot
• In the tab-menu, click on the the little screw
• Here is the request access token you will need to configure your bot!

Create your bot on Bot Connector

• Bot Connector allows you to connect your bot to multiple channels at the same time with only one API integration.
• Create a new account on Bot Connector or use your Recast.AI account

• Let’s start by creating a new bot, pick a name you like.
• To create the URL of you bot, create a webhook. That will create a tunnel from your bot to Bot Connector. We’re using a ngrok webhook, but you can use any kind of webhook you like.
• if you don’t have ngrok, check this out to get started.

ngrok http 5000

• Nice, you now have a first version of your bot! Now, let’s connect it to channels.

• Bot Connector has two main zones:

• in the orange selection, pick the channel you want

• in the purple selection, configure your integration

• In this tutorial, we’ll cover the Messenger integration, feel free to discover Slack and Kik on your own. 🙂

• So, you need two things: your page token and your app token.
• You’ll find you page token here:
• https://developers.facebook.com/apps/YOUR-APP-ID/messenger/
• and your app token here:
• https://developers.facebook.com/apps/YOUR-APP-ID/dashboard/
• After adding your channel, the connector will send you back a url and a webhook token. Put those information in the Facebook Developer page.

• You now have a bot connected to Facebook!

Clone your bot

git clone https://github.com/RecastAI/starwarsbot

Run your bot

• Go back to your bash and run your bot 🙂

vim config/index.js

const config = {}

config.recastToken = 'Recast token'
config.botToken = 'Bot token'
config.language = 'en'
config.url= 'https://api-botconnector.recast.ai'
config.botId = 'Bot id from bot-connector'
config.slug = 'Usename of bot-connector'
module.exports = config

npm install 
npm run start-dev

Author

Henri Floren - Recast.AI henri.floren@recast.ai

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License

Copyright (c) [2016] Recast.AI

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