What time is it and what is the weather like in Chicago?

Chatbot that can answer the question: "What time is it and what is the weather like in Chicago (or any other city)"?

This bot is build with Bot Builder SDK (Microsoft Bot Framework) v4.

On branch botbuilder-v3 is the version using Bot Builder SDK (Microsoft Bot Framework) v3.

New version feature

The first version of the bot could shown only hour in a selected city. Thanks integration with http://history.openweathermap.org is now able to provide you with weather information about selected city.

Prerequisites

• A Google maps api key. Currently google cloud account have a free trial (this might change). Learn how to get started with Google documentation.
• Geocoding Api and Time Zone API in your google cloud account should be enabled.
• An Open Weather Map api key. You can get it for free on Open Weather Map home website.
• .env file based on .env-example. You should replace YOUR_KEY with your google cloud api key and YOUR_WEATHER_KEY with Open Weather Map api key.

botFilePath="./city-information-bot.bot"
botFileSecret=""

MOCK_BACKEND=false

GEOCODE_API_URL=https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=REPLACE_THIS&key=YOUR_KEY
TIMEZONE_API_URL=https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/timezone/json?location=REPLACE_THIS&key=YOUR_KEY
OPENWEATHERMAP_GEOMETRY_URL = https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?REPLACE_THIS&appid=YOUR_WEATHER_KEY&units=metric

Build

npm install

Run

npm run start

Run Microsoft Bot Framework Emulator, open city-information-bot.bot file from this repo in emulator and enjoy.