innovation-edge-bot

🤖 🕶 Innovation Edge's Cisco Spark bot that fetches pokemon, projects, news, answers questions, and more! Edit

Cisco Spark is powerful communication tool for empowering collaboration among teams within a global space or business. To illustrate the power of chatbots, we've created our own personal assitant, the innovation-edge-bot! It also has natural language understanding so you can freely ask it many things, here are some sample phrases:

• "I want to learn more about innovation edge"
• "Tell me more about you guys"
• "What are you guys working on?"
• "Show me your projects."
• "Simon Says, <statement>"
• "How long have you been up?"
• "Do you know any pokemon?"
• "Show me news for <news topic>"
• "What's happening in <news topic>?"

To use our bot, message innovation-edge@sparkbot.io on Cisco Spark

Technical Insights

innovation-edge-bot is using Node.js and built with Botkit. It uses Wit.ai for Natural Language Processing and Understanding.

Directory Structure

This repository is built off of Howdy.ai's botkit-starter-ciscospark with a few minor revisions.

+ Existing Starter Files
├── process                 # Dynamically process intents and run associated files: <intent_name>.js
├── libs                    # Additional scripts for processing
├── store                   # A singleton cache reference
└── WitAiData.zip           # Wit.ai Training Data

NLP/NLU Training Data

You can download and import the training data for Wit.ai with the WitAiData.zip.

Helpful Node Modules

On top of the starter-kit, we are leveraging well-tested node modules to help with various things.

• Spark Messages - Help simplify complicated markdown messages into a succinct manner
• Node Cache - Simplify internal caching

Skills

innovation-edge-bot contains various skills that can be a great reference point for creating your own bots.

Available Skills:

• Display Projects
• FAQs
• News
• Pokemon
• Simon Says
• Uptime

Display Projects

Displays projects based on categories of (Completed / Active / Potential / Inactive) that is processed from a SmartSheet.

Example Triggers

• "Can you show me projects?"
• "Show me projects?"

Result

Answer Frequently Asked Questions

Provides commonly asked questions regarding the Innovation Edge team, and provide associated answers.

Example Triggers

• "I want to learn more about IE"
• "Can you tell me more?"

Result

News

Fetches the latest Google RSS feed and parses it per user search <NEWS_QUERY> and display up to 3 relevant articles.

Example Triggers

• "Tell me what's happening in <NEWS_QUERY>"
• "Show me news in <NEWS_QUERY>"

Result

Pokemon

Performs an API call to pokeapi.com and fetches a random Pokemon. The bot will respond with a sprite, and common stats.

Example Triggers:

• "Can you show me a pokemon?"
• "What pokemon do you know?"

Result

Simon Says

Attempts to find the <REPEAT_PHRASE> and repeats it.

Example Triggers:

• "Repeat after me <REPEAT_PHRASE>"
• "Simon Says <REPEAT_PHRASE>"

Result

Uptime

Displays the time the bot has been running, combined with an emoji to express its energy levels.

Example Triggers:

• "How long have you been up?"
• "Current uptime?"

Result

Questions

You can message brhim@cisco.com or submit an issue for additional information.

License

MIT © Cisco Innovation Edge