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The Date and Time Bot

A simple bot app which enables users to ask about the current date and time, calculate between dates, determine how many days until another date, etc.

Requirements

The app is built using Angular on the front end, Express on the back end, and API.AI's API Dialogflow to process and understand natural language.

You will need:

You will also need Google Maps API key, as we'll use some of their APIs to get data related to locations and timezones, specifically:

Once you've created your API.AI account Google Cloud account go ahead and create your Agent. Then, in your created Agent, import the intents and entities used in this example.

Getting Started

You can start by cloning this repo:

git clone git@github.com:van100j/tibot.git

Create your .env file which contains your development environment, including the APIs keys, simply copy the .env.example file to .env

cp .env.example .env

and update it accordingly with your API.AI and Google Maps API keys.

Install server dependencies at the root of the directory, and start the Express app:

npm install # or yarn install
npm start # or yarn start

Install front end dependencies in the ./client directory, and start the Angular app:

cd client
npm install # or yarn install
npm start # or yarn start, or ng serve

Open http://localhost:4200/ in your browser, you should be able to see the app running.

Live Demo

Live demo is available at https://ti-bot.herokuapp.com/

You can start "talking" to the bot by typing your date and time related questions.

For example, some like the following date related ones:

Or, these time related:

The bot also replies to small talk (using Dialogflow built-in small talk module):