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Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development

You're reading from   Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development Build chatbots and voice user interfaces with Chatfuel, Dialogflow, Microsoft Bot Framework, Twilio, and Alexa Skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788294669
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Srini Janarthanam Srini Janarthanam
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Tour Guide for Your City 3. Let's Talk Weather 4. Building a Persona Bot 5. Let's Catch a Train 6. Restaurant Search 7. The News Bot 8. My TV Guide 9. My Man Friday 10. More Resources

Building your first Twitter bot

Let's build a simple Twitter bot. This bot will listen to tweets and pick out those that have a particular hashtag. All the tweets with a given hashtag will be printed on the console. This is a very simple bot to help us get started. In the following sections, we will explore more complex bots.

  1. Go to the root directory and create a new Node.js program using npm init:
  1. Execute the npm install twitter --save command to install the Twitter Node.js library:

Run npm install request --save to install the Request library as well. We will use this in the future to make HTTP GET requests to a news data source.

  1. Explore your package.json file in the root directory:
{
"name": "twitterbot",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "my news bot",
"main": &quot...
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