A messenger bot written in node.js with a variety of commands
(With its main purpose for now to give you the weather for your city)
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Create a Heroku account here. We will use it to host our bot.
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Create a Facebook developer account here and follow this tutorial to set your bot up.
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Get an OpenWeatherMap API from here.
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Set up your own environment variables
(WEATHERID for OpenWeatherMap API, FB_ACCESS_TOKEN for your Facebook Page Access Token, and VERIFY_TOKEN for your personal verification message).
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In your local environment, run:
npm installto install the required modules.
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Afterwards, commit all of the code with git and create a new Heroku instance + push the code to cloud.
git init git add . git commit -m 'hello world' heroku create git push heroku master
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Weather: Returns the current weather of your city (If you gave your location).
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Detailed Weather: Returns a much more detailed weather of your city.
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Forecast: Returns the condition and highest/lowest temperature of the day.
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Inspire: Returns a random funny/inspiration quote.
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Help: Returns a list of commands that the bot can do.
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Setting: Allows user to change the current notification/location.
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Start Cron: Starts the cronjob (A message at 8 every morning).
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Stop Cron: Stops the cronjob.
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Random: Returns the 3 classic random values (Head/Tail, Random num from 0-100, and a random letter).
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Epoch: Returns the current time in UNIX timestamp.
It will also respond if you say hi or bye!