pyWebExMessage - WebEx Bot that generates adaptive cards to a WebEx Room

Examples

Running the Bot (Questions)

Output

Getting Started with CLUS_2022 WebEx Message Room Bot

As a first time speaker I thought using WebEx to expand the interactivity and longevity of my sessions I wrote this bot. I wanted to share with other Speakers in case they wanted to use it for their sessions.

To get started with CLUS_2022 WebEx Bot, follow the steps below:

Create A Room for Your Session

In WebEx create and customize a room for your session

Get a 24-hour token and Room ID

Visit the following developer.webex.com URL to get the room ID: List_Rooms

Get a 24-hour token

Click the copy button to obtain a 24-hour token. This token will be used to access the room. Keep it safe and secure. I recommending using environment variables to store the token so you do not have to input it everytime you run the bot.

Get the Room ID

Next get the room ID for the room you created. You need this to pass messages into the room with the bot. You can get the room ID in the browser directly or with a tool like Postman.

In the browser

Click Run

Find your room

In Postman

After you have the token and Rooms URL you can use Postman to get your rooms as well. Make a new GET request to the rooms URL. Specify Bearer token as the Authorization Type and paste in your token. Save this request if you would like in a Collection for reuse.

Installing the bot

To install the bot there are a few simple steps:

Setup a virtual environment

Ubuntu Linux

The following instructions are based on Windows WSL2 and Ubuntu however any flavour of Linux will work with possibly slightly different commands.

Confirm Python 3 is installed

$ python3 -V
Python 3.9.10

Create and activate a virtual environment

$ sudo apt install python3-venv
$ python3 -m venv message_room
$ source message_room/bin/activate
(message_room)$

Install the bot

(message_room)$pip install pywebexmessage

Windows

Confirm Python 3.9 is installed

Download Python

Create and activate a virtual environment

C:\>python3 -m venv message_room
C:\>message_room\Scripts\activate
(message_room) C:\>

Install the requirements

(message_room)$pip install pywebexmessage

Using the bot

Run the bot as an interactive session

(message_room)$ message_room

The form questions:

Question 1 - What is the roomID?

Question 2 - What is the token?

Question 3 - What is the image URL?

Question 4 - What is the small header text?

Question 5 - What is the title of the session?

Question 6 - What is the description of the session?

Question 7 - Where is the session?

Question 8 - What day is the session?

Question 9 - What time is the session?

Question 10 - Who are the speakers?

Question 11 - URL of the session or any other URL?

Question 12 - A label for the URL button?

Environment variables

Every question can be stored as a variable in the environment. This is useful if you want to reuse the same question in multiple messages. export ROOMID= export TOKEN= export IMAGEURL= export HEADER= export TITLE=<title> export DESCRIPTION= export LOCATION= export DATE= export TIME= export SPEAKERS= export URL= export URL_LABEL=<url_label>