leonardoleo / hotelbot

Create a hotel booking chat bot in 10 minutes

HotelBot built using the Waylo API

You can clone this repo to create your own hotel booking Facebook Messenger chatbot in 10 minutes. The hotel bookings are provided by Waylo API and you earn a share of the revenue.

If you want to test out a HotelBot first, try Waylo Bot

Build Your Hotel Booking Bot and Monetize

Creating this version will give you a Facebook Messenger chat bot.

You can read our FAQ to learn more about the monetization. The average earnings per booking from your bot is ~ USD 10.

How is this possible in 10 minutes?

This is an example of bot to bot communcation. You only set up a simple FB bot with a button. Waylo's API takes care of the Natural Language Understanding, getting access to inventory and handling payments.

Requirements

Edit 5 parameters in config/default.json.

```
{
"appSecret": "<Add your appSecret>",
"pageAccessToken" : "<Add your pageAccessToken>",
"validationToken": "<Add your validationToken>",
"serverURL": "<Add your server URL(eg https://<example>.herokuapp.com)",
"wayloKey": "<Add your waylo API KEY>"
}
```

If you have set up a few bots, create a FB app, page and head over to Waylo Developer site and create your API key. You should be good to go. If not, you can follow the steps outlined here.

You can see the API request Here

You would need node, npm and git installed to follow along.

Get Started

Build the server

1. Create an app on heroku.com or your favorite server

   Take note of the server URL.

2. Create a new folder Hotelbot and clone this repo

   git clone https://github.com/waylo-api/HotelBot.git
   

3. Add heroku remote

   git remote add heroku [email protected]:<project>.git
   

   where is the name of your Heroku app in Step 1.

4. Install dependencies

   npm install
   

5. Add config parameters

   Edit config/default.json and add the following parameters

   "validationToken": "",
   "serverURL": "",
   

   Add any string as your validation token. "serverURL" is the server URL in Step 1. Leave others blank for now.

6. Commit all code to Heroku

   git add .
   git commit -am "first commit"
   git push heroku master    
   

Setup the Facebook App

1. Create or configure a Facebook App here https://developers.facebook.com/apps/. Take note of the App Secret in the App Dashboard.

   

2. In the app go to Messenger tab (or add product and then add Messenger) and click Setup Webhook. Here you will put in the URL of your Heroku server(Typically https://.herokuapp.com/webhook) and a token in Step 5 of Build the server. Make sure to check all the subscription fields.

3. Create a Facebook Page

4. Get a Page Access Token and save this somewhere.

   

5. Subscribe your page to the App.

6. Add config parameters

   Edit config/default.json and add the following parameters

   "appSecret": ,
   "pageAccessToken" : ,
   

   "appSecret" is your FB App Secret in Step 1 of "Setup the Facebook App". "pageAccessToken" is the Page Access Token you noted in the previous step.

Get Waylo Hotel API key

1. First, sign up for a free account at Waylo developer account

You'll need the Page Access Token in Step 4 of Setup the Facebook App

2. Note the API key and add config parameters

Edit config/default.json and add the following parameters

"wayloKey": <WAYLO API KEY>

3. Commit all changes to Heroku

   git add .
   git commit -am "Waylo API first commit"
   git push heroku master    
   

4. You should be all set. Open your Facebook page and start chatting with your new hotel booking bot! Congrats you have just enabled bot monetization.

License

See the LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. Feel free to use and modify the code.

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