topic Re: Using Bots in Webex for Developers

Using Bots

itadmin — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 21:35:39 GMT

Hi everyone... I'm just starting my journey developing for WebEx so my apologies if this question is silly.

I've created an API with FastAPI to send a PDF file to an end user via email. Using Postman, that all works just fine. Now, I would like some way to allow the end-user to do some bot command like @hrforms, and then a card comes up. They fill out the card with their email address and which form they want, and then the bot will construct the API call to FastAPI.

Could someone point me in the right direction in terms of studying documentation? I'm roaming Bots and Cards... Thanks in advance!

- Michael

Re: Using Bots

mparra.fusionet — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 21:53:35 GMT

Hi @itadmin

I had the same troubles and found it a bit painful to get some early documentation, the Webex Development team did a nice session explaining the whole process and pointing to resources to do what you are looking for:

https://developer.webex.com/webinars#xd_co_f=Yzc0NjBjZjktNjAxYS00MjRiLTlkZDUtMzg0MDg0YTQyNjk4~

Re: Using Bots

itadmin — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 22:00:12 GMT

Hi, thanks for the link. It does a bunch of different webinars, I'm assuming its this one?

Exploring the Power of Webex Bots with Buttons and Cards for Webex Developer Audience

Thanks!

Re: Using Bots

mparra.fusionet — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 22:05:56 GMT

That's the one!,

Exploring the Power of Webex Bots with Buttons and Cards for Webex Developer Audience

The speaker created a guide, quite relevant if all your apps are in the cloud, if you have to reach your systems behind a firewall on-prem, look for the websocket option instead of the webhook one (both are mentioned in the video) that you already located, below the guide of the Webex Develpment team:

https://developer.webex.com/blog/from-zero-to-webex-teams-chatbot-in-15-minutes