bothub 0.1.13

Build serverless chatbot on BotHub.Studio

This package provide components to works with BotHub.Studio, which is a chatbot hosting service.

With bothub-cli, you can deploy a new chatbot with just four lines of commands.

Installation

To install bothub:

$ pip install bothub

The bothub package works on python2 and 3 both.

Getting Started

You can build a echo chatbot simply by subclassing BaseBot class and overriding handle_message method.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from bothub_client.bot import BaseBot

class Bot(BaseBot):
    """Represent a Bot logic which interacts with a user.

    BaseBot superclass have methods belows:

    * Send message
      * self.send_message(message, user_id=None, channel=None, extra=None)
    * Data Storage
      * self.set_project_data(data)
      * self.get_project_data()
      * self.set_user_data(data, user_id=None, channel=None)
      * self.get_user_data(user_id=None, channel=None)
      * self.nlu(vendor) -> NluClient

    When you omit user_id and channel argument, it regarded as a user
    who triggered a bot.
    """

    def handle_message(self, event, context):
        self.send_message(event['content'])

When a bot receives a message from an user, it triggers handle_message method with event and context object.

An event is a dict which contains following items:

• content: A message text received.

• channel: Which channel (messenger platform) sent a message.

• sender: Who sent a message. {"id": <user-id>, "name": "<username>}

• raw_data: A raw data itself messenger platforms offers.

You can respond to this message with various tools we provides.

Messaging

To send a message, use a self.send_message method with a message you want to send.

self.send_message('hello')

Most of case you can omit user_id and channel arguments or put values to those arguments to send a message to specific user rathan than whom sent a message to your bot.

You also send a message with rich controls like quick replies or buttons using Message object.

from bothub_client.messages import Message

message = Message(event).add_quick_reply('Go ahead')\
                        .add_quick_reply('Never mind')\
                        .set_text('May I reserve the seat?')
self.send_message(message)

Message class provides these methods:

• set_text(text)

• add_url_button(text, url):

• add_postback_button(text, payload)

• add_quick_reply(text, image_url=None)

• add_location_request(text)

• add_keyboard_button(text)

Storage

To store/retreive some data, we provides following methods:

• Project level

  • self.set_project_data(data): set data to a project

  • self.get_project_data(): get data from a project

• User level

  • self.set_user_data(data, user_id=None, channel=None): set user data

  • self.get_user_data(user_id=None, channel=None): get user data

data should be a dict. A keys which server has but not included in data key will be ignored not be deleted.

NLU Integeration

If you registered NLU integration at BotHub.Studio, you can use nlu method to make a request.

There are two styles to request to NLU service. (eg. to use API.ai)

First, use event object to construct message and session_id.

def handle_message(self, event, context):
    response = self.nlu('apiai').ask(event=event)
    self.send_message(response.next_message)

Or, put explicit message and session_id by yourself.

def handle_message(self, event, context):
    response = self.nlu('apiai').ask(message='hello', session_id='customer1')
    self.send_message(response.next_message)

ask method returns a NluResponse class which contains attributes like:

raw_response

A raw response which NLU service returns.

action

A NluAction class object to identify intent and required parameters.

next_message

Next message text to respond NLU service recommend.

License

This package is licensed under AGPLv3 for non-commercial personal use. If you want to use this package for commercial use, please contact to [e-mail].