What's Happening?

A Smart Facebook Messenger Chat Bot

Stackathon Project

by Fanny Jiang

Grace Hopper 1702

What's Happening Chat Bot

A Facebook Messenger Chat Bot that suggest events and activities using artificial intelligence

Tools

• Node/Express.js
• Facebook Messenger
• API.ai
• Eventbrite API

DEMO

Challenges

• Understanding how to link the different platforms together
• Getting each platform to "talk" to one another
• Manipulating received data and sending it where it needs to go

API.ai

• Artificial intelligence software that analyzes a user's text and recognizes developer specified intent keywords
• Intent keywords are associated with action keywords
• Action keywords let the server know what task needs to take place next.

Eventbrite api

• RESTful API with many endpoints
• Make a GET '/events/search' request to the Eventbrite API with the activity and city from the customer as params, in addition to other params to narrow search down by date, distance, and category ID

Work in Progress

• Add more "Intent" keywords to API.ai/train the AI to learn more intent keywords
• Allow customer to customize search
• Allow for more categories of events to be found

Tools/Resources

Girlie Mac -- Simple Facebook Chatbot Tutorial:

http://www.girliemac.com/blog/2017/01/06/facebook-apiai-bot-nodejs/

Facebook Messenger

API.ai

Eventbrite API

Thank you!

What's Happening Bot: ​m.me/whatshappeningEVE

Github: https://github.com/fanny-jiang/whats-happening-bot

Blog: https://medium.com/@heygirlcode

Slides: https://slides.com/fannyjiang/what-s-happening/