Integrating Botfuel with Actions On Google:

Wassim Chegham aka. @ManekiNekko

Head Of Open Source Program Office at SFEIR

#AoG

A Beginner Guide

Olivier LePlus aka. @olivierleplus

Developer Advocate at Botfuel

Google Developer Expert

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Olivier LePlus

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SFEIR

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Wassim Chegham

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A bit of vocabulary

Google Assistant — a conversation between you and Google to help GTD

Google Home — voice activated speaker powered by the Google Assistant

Agent / Chatbot / Action — an actual app serving a particular purpose

Actions on Google — developer platform to build apps for the Assistant

Apps for the Google Assistant — 3rd party apps integrated to the Assistant

Actions SDK — a software SDk for creating apps

DialogFlow — Google's platform for creating conversational interfaces

Botfuel — a platform for creating conversational interfaces

 

Intelligent chatbots vocabulary

Can you book an Indian style restaurant for 2 people for tomorrow at 7pm near my address?

"Ok Google, talk to Botfuel Weather"

"Sure! Here is..."

Invoke an action

"Hi!  Welcome. How can I help you?"

"What's the forecast in London?"

"The temperature in London…"

Speech to Text, NLP, Knowledge Graph, ML Ranking, User Profile Text to Speech

Speech to Text = ASR

Text to speech = TTS

Intents matching

"Sure! Here is..."

Invoke an action

"Hi!  Welcome. How can I help you?"

"What's the forecast in London?"

Speech to Text = ASR

Speech to Text = ASR

Text to speech = TTS

Intents matching, NLP

"The temperature in London…"

"Ok Google, talk to Botfuel Weather"

Install Botfuel Adapter for The AoG

npm install --save botfuel-module-adapter-assistant
// assistant-config.js
module.exports = {
  adapter: {
    name: 'assistant',
  },
  modules: ['botfuel-module-adapter-assistant']
};

Add a configuration

actions.json

{
  "actions": [
    {
      "description": "Default Welcome Intent",
      "name": "MAIN",
      "fulfillment": {
        "conversationName": "botfuel-weather"
      },
      "intent": {
        "name": "actions.intent.MAIN",
        "trigger": {
          "queryPatterns": ["talk to Botfuel Weather"]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "conversations": {
    "botfuel-weather": {
      "name": "botfuel-weather",
      "url": "https://<SERVER>/webhook"
    }
  },
  "locale": "en"
}

Mark a question when needed

new BotTextMessage(..., {question: true})
new BotImageMessage(..., { accessibility_text, title })

Add a11y fields for images

Deploy your AoG project

gactions update --action_package action.json \
                --project botfuel-weather

Deploy Your Bot's Logic

(bonus)

Cloud Functions

Cloud Storage

Cloud Pub/Sub

Direct HTTP calls

Cloud Firestore*

Real-time Database*

Firebase Authentication*

Google Analytics for Firebase*

Build your next serverless application

Testing Locally (debugging)

# Test locally with firebase
$ firebase serve --only functions


# Test locally with GCP
$ functions deploy botfuel --trigger-http


# Open a remote tunnel
$ ngrok http 8010
$ ngrok http -subdomain=wassim 8010

Deploying a Cloud Function to Production

# With gcloud
$ gcloud beta functions 
                deploy 
                botfuel --trigger-http



# With Firebase
$ firebase deploy --only functions

Deploying to App Engine for Production

# app.yaml
runtime: nodejs8

env_variables:
  BOTFUEL_APP_TOKEN: "xxxx"
  BOTFUEL_APP_ID: "xxxx"
  BOTFUEL_APP_KEY: "xxxx"

network:
  forwarded_ports:
    - 8080

Deploy to production

$ gcloud app deploy

THANK YOU

WE ARE HIRING

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