YNCFoodbot_Messenger

Still in development. Facebook Messenger chatbot that sends information and links about food options around Yale-NUS campus. Chat with the bot on messenger at this page: https://www.facebook.com/YNC-Foodbot-979027202238929/.

I used https://tsaprailis.com/2016/06/02/How-to-build-and-deploy-a-Facebook-Messenger-bot-with-Python-and-Flask-a-tutorial/ to start.

Hosted on Heroku.

Learning points:

• Facebook messenger API
• HTML requests
• Xml object parsing with Xpath
• git markdown
• gitignore
• git branching
• caching with pylibmc

11/10 Fri

• Update Cendana buttery timing
• Cache for webscrape
• Cache for everything
• Buttery menus
• Brewhouse: quick reply, welcome_msg, reply, get_all, carousel, match_keyword, test

Should-haves

• Grab n Go preview
• upload all img to imgbb

Nice-to-haves

• coffee stand openings/updates
• Set up Firebase, link with Gdrive CMS

Features to explore

• Order buttery food?
• Notification subscriptions?

Other chatbot ideas:

• YNC general info, memes/comics subscription
• receipt scanner/expenses recorder

Messenger API features explored:

• Get Started message
• Share Button
• Carousel messages
• Persistent menu
• Lists
• Quick Replies

Completed:

3/9

• update buttery opening timings
• update agora
• update dh webscraper/show more
• update copy (e.g. share message)
• Spoons and Forks link
• case insensitivity

10/8 Thursday

• Connect Google Form CMS

3/8 Thurs

• Facebook avpproval!
• xpath by day/tab rel
• Fix share quick_reply
• macs img, utown img, agora img
• Agora - grab n go scrape

2/8 Wed

• add emoji to all msgs
• Add location to amaan_buttons
• Remove explore (from keywords_desc_list, quick_replies, get_all_carousel, get_all_text, test_generator, match_keyword)
• Remove info (from keywords_desc_list, quick_replies, get_all_carousel, get_all_text, test_generator, match_keyword)
• Change Get Started description

30/07 Sunday

• Change coming_soon_msg
• refactor info msg to concat all texts
• Add "Share" image.
• Add quick_replies to everything
• Get Started, GET_ STARTED_PB, start
• info, INFO_PB
• dh, DH_PB
• buttery, BUTTERY_PB
• amaan, AMAAN_PB
• MACS_PB, macs_msg
• AGORA_PB, agora_msg
• UTOWN_PB, utown_msg
• EXPLORE_PB, explore_msg
• "help", "HELP_PB"
• "FEEDBACK_PB", "feedback"
• "#feedback"
• GET_ALL_PB, get_all_msg
• turn typing delay back on

29/07 Saturday

• Write instant_test.py
• Refactor match_text_or_payload out into match_text_or_payload.py
• Refactor message_objects: add_quick_reply and generate_carousel_msg
• Feedback button
  • #feedback prompt and received message
• Add emoji's to start_msg
• Add help button to sorry_msg

28/07 Friday

• Refactor YNCFoodbotserver.py
  • texts
  • postbacks
• Branch keyword_interface:
  • Change start_msg
  • Implement quick_replies
  • Remove persistent menu

24/07 Monday

• Reformat daily special message
• Privacy Policy
• App Logo
• Fix typo
• Refactor YNCFoodbotserver.py
• Create test generators

23/07 Sunday

• Create messenger api json request generators (for image uploads and settings)
• Send Al Amaan Menu (upload images to FB server)