The latest articles on Forem by Nahu (@nahu). https://forem.com/nahu https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F20280%2F0a88c89a-1d53-4c08-8331-e3b858d09c83.jpg https://forem.com/nahu en Nahu Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:45:10 +0000 https://forem.com/nahu/dev-to-twilio-hackathon-rocket-launch-bot-release-3149 https://forem.com/nahu/dev-to-twilio-hackathon-rocket-launch-bot-release-3149 <p>Special thanks to Dev.to and Twilio for my first hackathon! This was a fun experience and a great excuse to be productive in these trying times!<br> I'm looking forward for more!</p> <h2> What I built </h2> <p>I built a rocket launch bot that you can contact via SMS! The scope of the project was to find an implementation for the Java wrapper I built a while ago.</p> <p>With Twilio's Autopilot this was not super difficult to implement!<br> So much for my first entry onto a Dev.to hackathon (apart from Hacktoberfest).</p> <h4> Category Submission: </h4> <p>Well, my project would fall into the <em>Interesting Integrations</em> category.<br> This project was an excuse to implement my wrapper onto something!</p> <h2> Demo Link </h2> <p>Messaging <strong>+1 863 869 3995</strong> should trigger the collect task to demo the project, unless my credits run out this should work!</p> <h2> Link to Code </h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/NahuLD/launch-twilio-bot">Project</a></li> </ul> <h2> How I built it (what's the stack? did I run into issues or discover something new along the way?) </h2> <p>I used Twilio's Java SDK. SparkJava for the web-hooks and my Java wrapper for LaunchLibrary.net (thanks a lot!).</p> <p>At the beginning I was thinking about directly parsing the data myself by triggering the web-hook as soon as a message was received (using a Messaging Service that would directly link to my endpoint). But after looking into Twilio's resources I found Autopilot, a great feature that uses a sort of ChatBot to parse the messages and detect intent!</p> <p>This made my project 10 times easier! Big thanks to Twilio!</p> <h2> Additional Resources/Info </h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/NahuLD/java-launch-library">Launch Library Wrapper</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.twilio.com/autopilot">Twilio's Autopilot</a></li> </ul> twiliohackathon java bot Nahu Sun, 26 Apr 2020 02:02:04 +0000 https://forem.com/nahu/dev-to-twilio-hackathon-rocket-launch-bot-part-two-2603 https://forem.com/nahu/dev-to-twilio-hackathon-rocket-launch-bot-part-two-2603 <p>Oh well, this was kind of a wild ride I guess.</p> <h1> Using Twilio bots </h1> <p>Twilio has a great feature called Autopilot, where you can create bots trainable AI bots that parse the messages based on the user and groups it by intent (works similarly to Dialogflow).</p> <p>In theory you could build fully fledged out bots by using features provided by Twilio, Functions and Autopilot. But as I wanted to implement my Java wrapper we'll be using only one of the two.</p> <h1> Collecting intent to respond with desired information </h1> <p>For parsing what "type" of request the user intends we are using field types and making samples to our collect task to train it.</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--de0JF4JD--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://this-is-a.bad-me.me/5et7usX.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--de0JF4JD--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://this-is-a.bad-me.me/5et7usX.png" alt="type" width="478" height="247"></a></p> <p>After collecting what type of request the user wants to make, we just use a web-hook to our Java application.</p> <h1> Ending </h1> <p>With these, we can have our project set up with only a couple of tasks and only one field type.</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--KX7Xeimf--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://this-is-a.bad-me.me/32qJpzw.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--KX7Xeimf--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://this-is-a.bad-me.me/32qJpzw.png" alt="tasks" width="353" height="256"></a></p> <h1> Links </h1> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/NahuLD/launch-twilio-bot/blob/master/src/main/resources/collect.json">Collect task</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/NahuLD/launch-twilio-bot/">Project</a></li> </ul> twiliohackathon java bot Nahu Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:16:17 +0000 https://forem.com/nahu/dev-to-twilio-hackathon-writing-a-rocket-launch-bot-5609 https://forem.com/nahu/dev-to-twilio-hackathon-writing-a-rocket-launch-bot-5609 <h2> Introduction </h2> <p>This is my first hackathon with Dev.to I will be participating so I'm looking forward to it!</p> <p>(this is not my first post but I have decided to remove the first one because it was really minimal)</p> <p>At the beginning I started making a bulk project, with myself parsing the messages received through the web-hook directly.</p> <p>After looking at Twilio's resources I came across Autopilot bots, a conversational AI stack that parses most of the data with a very convenient to use UI (which reminds me a lot of Dialogflow). With this I would just need to set up a couple endpoints to provide the responses.</p> <h2> Link to Code </h2> <p>This time I have started the <a href="https://github.com/NahuLD/launch-twilio-bot">GitHub repository</a> for the project!</p> <h2> What's the stack? </h2> <p>I have decided to stick with Java for the project.<br> We'll be used Twilio's provided SDK, alongside with my Java wrapper and SparkJava for webhooks.</p> twiliohackathon java bot