Telegram-chatbot-witai-dialogflow

Chatbot with Telegram, Wit ai, Dialogflow and CodeIgniter

Requirements

1. Wit AI Account.
2. Dialogflow Account.
3. Telegram Account.
4. Linux OS (feel free to use any OS).
5. Gcloud.
6. Git.
7. PHP.
8. Ngrok.

Setup

Telegram:

1. Create a new chatbot via BotFather.
2. Store the newly created telegram bot access token in your OS environment variable by running:

export TELEGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN=YOUR-ACCESS-TOKEN

DialogFlow:

1. Enable Small Talks in your Dialogflow account.
2. Store your Dialogflow project ID in your OS environment variable by running:

export DIALOGFLOW_PROJECT_ID=YOUR-DIALOGFLOW-PROJECT-ID

3. Export your private key for Dialogflow integrations in JSON format
4. Store the path to your JSON file in your OS environment variable by running:

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/home/user/Downloads/ordertracker-isocuo-d7882fd63303.json"

Wit AI:

1. Import the project Wit AI data into a new app on wit.ai.
2. Store the wit.ai server access token in your OS environment variable by running:

export WITAI_ACCESS_TOKEN=YOUR-WITAI-ACCESS-TOKEN

Usage

Navigate to the project directory in your terminal and start your PHP local web server

php -S localhost:8000

Open a new terminal, Navigate to the project directory and start your Ngrok Server

ngrok http 8000

To set the webhook URL to your chatbot, run this in your terminal. Note: Replace YOUR_NGROK_URL with your Ngrok server URL.

curl https://api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN/setWebhook?url=https://YOUR_NGROK_URL/index.php/flow/webhook

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

License

MIT