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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 bot

Chatfuel bots can be published on two deployment platforms: Facebook Messenger and Telegram. Let us build a chatbot for Facebook Messenger first. In order to do that, we need to create a Facebook Page. Every chatbot on Facebook Messenger needs to be attached to a page. Here is how we can build a Facebook Page:

  1. Go to https://www.facebook.com/pages/create/.
  2. Click the category appropriate to the page content. In our case, we will use Brand or Product and choose App Page
  3. Give the page a name. In our case, let's use Get_Around_Edinburgh. Note that Facebook does not make it easy to change page names. So choose wisely.
  4. Once the page is created, you will see Chatfuel asking for permission to connect to the page:
  1. Click CONNECT TO PAGE. You will be taken to the bot editor.
  2. The name of the bot is set to My First Bot. It has a Messenger...
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