basic-textbot

a textbot that tells you things, asks for a response, and checks the response

To get this set up and working as a textbot, you'll need to use two services: GoogleAppEngine and Twilio.

Getting Started

There are four important files for this app:

• app.yaml, which defines the files for this app
• queue.yaml, which defines the task queue for this app
• bot.py, which contains the interface for the bot
• text.py, which contains the actual text the bot says

Step by step instructions

• make a Twilio account it needs to be a paid account to interact with the html stuff Google App Engine is going to make edit bot.py to use your account's phone number, account sid, and auth token

• make a Google App Engine account

• add Twilio's python library to this directory see GoogleAppEngine's instructions TODO but warning: they are missing a step! you also need to ln pytz

• test it with GoogleAppEngineLauncher debug with the log console

• make a project for the app in Google Developer's Console this gives a project id

• edit the project id in app.yaml to use this project id application: project-id

• upload the application using cd .. (go up a directory level) appcfg.py update dirOfProject

• configure phone number on Twilio so SMS URL point to the GoogleAppEngine URL http://project-id.appspot.com/respond