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SeaYou - My SeaTalk Bot Friend

This is a tutorial to create and deploy your SeaTalk bot with one click.

Steps

  1. create a SeaTalk bot at https://open.seatalk.io

  2. click Deploy with Vercel to deploy the bot on vercel

  3. update the environment variables where

    1. SEA_APP_ID is the APP ID in Basic Info & Credentials page
    2. SEA_APP_SECRET is the APP SECRET in Basic Info & Credentials page
    3. BOT_SIGNING_SECRET is the Signing Secret in Event Callback page

  4. go to the vercel domain and paste the vercel domain in SeaTalk bot's Event Callback page e.g. https://seayou.vercel.app

  5. (optional) To recreate SeaTalk i.e. record all messages received, add extra two environment variables from https://www.convex.dev/ and redeploy in vercel

    1. CONVEX_URL
    2. CONVEX_DEPLOY_KEY

Local Development

  1. create .env file and copy from .env.example and update the environment variables
  2. install packages with pip install -r requirements.txt
  3. start the flask server with python app.py
  4. setup ngrok for port 5001 with ngrok http 5001
  5. add the ngrok url back to Event Callback page e.g.https://9fdf-101-127-248-164.ngrok-free.app
  6. to update the frontend, you need to setup a convex account
   cd frontend;
   npm install;
   npm run dev;