webex-bot-session

Code used in session for Cisco Partners. Topic: Webex bots in Python.

Requirements

(free) Webex Message account free
Python 3.9 download
Ngrok download
Libraries (webexteamssdk, requests, flask) (see below)
(free) Kiara translate account via RapidAPI link

Install libraries

pip install webexteamssdk

pip install flask

pip install requests

GOAL

Create a Webex Bot that translates text from a detected language to a configured destination language. Format:

<countrycode> <text_to_translate>

Example:

"de remember when we had live events with real people"

Will translate this scentence to 'de' (German)

Steps

Meet requirements

As listed above

1. Small webserver

Using flask:

step1-webserver.py

2. Send Webex Teams Message

Using the Webex SDK - send message to Webex user:

step2-send-webexteams-message.py

3. Create Webhook

Using the Webex SDK - create a webhook for the bot:

step3-create-webhook.py

4. Bot: get message text

Get the actual message text:

step4-bot-get-message.py

5. Bot: do not respond to own messages

Make the bot NOT respond to it's own messages

step5-bot-dontlistento-yourself.py

6. Bot: add translation component

Now add the final step that turns it into a translation bot!

step6-bot-translate.py

More info

Translation service: Kiara Translation API v2
Code used in this session: this page (https://github.com/DJF3/webex-teams-bot-session)

Webex Developer News http://cs.co/webexdevlink

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