machaao-client 0.0.4

A package for rapidly prototyping a bot on Machaao platform

Machaao - Your one stop chatbot companion

A module for python developers looking to rapidly build, prototype and publish personalized chatbots

Full tutorial below to create your first bot

Live Web Demo

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Bot Creation

Create a python venv (Recommended)

# For Linux/MacOS
python3 -m venv env
source ./env/bin/activate

# For Windows
python -m venv env
env\Scripts\activate

Install machaao_client package

# For Linux/MacOS
pip3 install machaao_client

# For Windows
pip install machaao_client

Get MessengerX.io API Key

• Available on the MessengerX.io portal
• If you aren't registered, please create an account and login
• Set up your new bot by providing it a Character Name and Description.
  • Select Custom Bot option
  • It should look something like this:
  • 
• Click on Save. It will redirect you to your dashboard.
• On your dashboard you can see your newly created bot
  • 
• Click on Settings tab. It will open your bot configuration page.
  • 
• On the configuration page you'd be able to see a string named token. That's your Machaao API Token

Create a new .env file in the same directory

nano -w .env

Put these key-value pairs in your .env file

API_TOKEN=<Machaao API Token>
ENV=dev

Change ENV=prod when you want to publish your bot

Create a python file - app.py and copy the following code

from datetime import datetime

import pytz
from flask import Flask, request
from machaao_client import MachaaoSession, QuickReply, MachaaoTextMessage

app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/machaao/hook', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def receive():
    
    # Create a machaao session
    session = MachaaoSession(
        request,
        server_session_create_time=server_session_create_time
    )

    # Get user message
    text = session.user_message
    print(f"Text from user: {text}")

    # Reply to user
    reply = "Hi from Machaao!!"

    # Add Quick replies to your message
    hello_qr = QuickReply(content_type="text", title="Hello 👋", payload="Hello")
    quick_replies = [hello_qr]

    # Compose the text message
    msg = MachaaoTextMessage(text=reply, quick_replies=quick_replies, ads=True)

    # Reply back to the user
    return session.send_message(msg)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    server_session_create_time = datetime.now(
        tz=pytz.utc).replace(tzinfo=None)

    app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=5000, debug=False)
    

Run your simple chatbot on your local server

# For Linux/MacOS
python3 app.py

# For Windows
python app.py

Start ngrok.io tunnel in a new terminal (local development)

ngrok http 5000

• You'll get a Forwarding URL mentioned on the console as shown below
• Copy the Forwarding URL. In this example it would be:

https://26ea-150-107-177-46.ngrok-free.app

Update your webhook

Update your bot Webhook URL on the bot configuration page with the NGROK Forwarding URL
In this example your Webhook URL would be:

https://26ea-150-107-177-46.ngrok-free.app/machaao/hook

Refer to this screenshot below

Test your bot:

Click on Preview to chat with your bot

NOTE: UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT (ACCEPTING PULL REQUESTS)