Allen, thank you for the code. I truly appreciate you sharing it! I used it (and gave credit) in my solution and I published the entire solution so other beginners can follow the steps from A to Z to add the weather skill to their chatbot. The next challenge will be to adapt the code for a call into the forecast option of OpenWeather, which is a paid option. This will require improving the dialog node to discern between requests for the current weather or for a forecast.
I will also explore the option of using IBM's weather solution. It seemed easier to work with OpenWeather, but it would be a pity not to explore all the options offered by IBM.
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Antonel Neculai
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon August 02, 2021 06:19 PM
From: Allen Nugent
Subject: Weather Skill for Watson Assistant
Hi Antonel,
Capture the fields you want from the response by OpenWeather into a formatted string variable, and return it to your assistant.
My cloud function is:
let rp = require('request-promise')
function main(params) {
const options = {
uri: "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=" + encodeURIComponent(params.object_of_interest) + "&units=metric&APPID=my_openweather_api_id" ,
json: true
}
return rp(options)
.then(res => {
WeatherReport = "Current Temperature : " + res.main.temp + ", Pressure : " + res.main.pressure + ", Humidity : " + res.main.humidity + ", temp min : " + res.main.temp_min + " , temp max : " + res.main.temp_max
return { WeatherReport
}
})
}
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Allen Nugent
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Original Message:
Sent: Mon July 26, 2021 09:09 AM
From: Antonel Neculai
Subject: Weather Skill for Watson Assistant
Thank you Vincent for the info sources. I have started working on developing the chatbot connected to OpenWeather API. I have been successful calling the API so far, the only aspect I still have to work on is processing the return JSON file by the IBM Watson Functions using Node.js so it passes on a nice, human-friendly response back to Watson Assistant in the dialog to display for the user. Processing JSON file with Node.js or Python is a useful skill anyway, since it's needed in pretty much any Watson Assistant project, so I'll go for it. After the chatbot is ready, I will come back here and post a link to the project so others can see an example of how to implement weather with Watson Assistant.
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Antonel Neculai
https://www.LinkedIn.com/in/antonelneculai/
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Antonel Neculai
Original Message:
Sent: Tue July 20, 2021 09:49 PM
From: Vincent Kok
Subject: Weather Skill for Watson Assistant
Hi Antonel,
I have not encountered any tutorials or examples. But I guess you could use the web hooks tutorial by Morgan Carroll here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z3i5IsBVnk
The API that you can use is from Openweather: https://openweathermap.org/api
Hope it helps.
Thanks!
Vincent Kok
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincekok/
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Vincent Kok