/Best-Buy-AR-MachineLearning-Shopping-Bot

Created a Shopping Assistant chatbot and Augmented Reality product visualization application for BestBuy. Built utilizing Microsoft Azure, Machine Learning, BestBuy developer API, and 3D Models. Extracted product info using BestBuy API calls and HTML parsing to obtain website data, and utilized CSS, HTML, Javascript and React.

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Shopping Bot

This bot has been created using Bot Framework. We trained our bot using popular inquiries for different categories of tech shopping, and data obtained from the BestBuy Products Developer API. The goal of our bot is to provide the best information and suggestions according to your situation.

AR Viewing

After you've been recommended some products, an AR tag will appear alongside it. You can use your phone to scan the tag to visualize it's dimensions and how it would look in person. Using the product dimension data from the BestBuy Products Developer API, each product is scaled to it's most realistic size.

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Prerequisites

  • Node.js version 10.14.1 or higher

    # determine node version
node --version

To run the bot

  • Install modules

    npm install

  • Start the bot

    npm start

Testing the bot using Bot Framework Emulator

Bot Framework Emulator is a desktop application that allows bot developers to test and debug their bots on localhost or running remotely through a tunnel.

  • Install the Bot Framework Emulator version 4.3.0 or greater from here

Connect to the bot using Bot Framework Emulator

  • Launch Bot Framework Emulator
  • File -> Open Bot
  • Enter a Bot URL of http://localhost:3978/api/messages

Deploy the bot to Azure

To learn more about deploying a bot to Azure, see Deploy your bot to Azure for a complete list of deployment instructions.

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