Factcheck Chatbot

The chatbot can be used by the public to search for related fact check reports and to submit potential misinformation.

This project was bootstrapped with Bottender init script.

Configuration

The bottender.config.js File

Bottender configuration file. You can use this file to provide settings for the session store and channels.

The .env File

Bottender utilizes the dotenv package to load your environment variables when developing your app.

To make the bot work, you must put required environment variables into your .env file.

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

npm run dev

Runs the app in development mode.
The bot will automatically reload if you make changes to the code.
By default, server runs on http://localhost:5000 and ngrok runs on http://localhost:4040.

To run in Console Mode, provide the --console option:

npm run dev -- --console
yarn dev --console

npm start

Runs the app in production mode.
By default, server runs on http://localhost:5000.

To run in Console Mode, provide the --console option:

npm start -- --console
yarn start --console

npm run lint

Runs the linter rules using Eslint.

npm test

Runs the test cases using Jest.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to our projects! You can ask questions or file a bug report by creating an issue on GitLab. To contribute, fork this repository on GitLab and create a merge request.

Getting Help

If you have questions, file an issue in our repository on GitLab, you can also contact us at tech@factchecklab.org.

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2020 tech@factchecklab.

The source code is licensed under Affero General Public License Version 3.