How do I assert an action to a command in a telegram bot?
Here it is shown how commands work.
Here it is shown how to change list of commands.
But how to change the commands themselves?
I.e. how to create a command '/help', which will show user a message 'hi, this is help'?
How do I assert an action to a command in a telegram bot?
The straightforward way is using the Edit Commands option from the #BotFather:
Multiple commands can be passed as multiple lines, for example, when asked, reply to the BotFather with:
pause - Pause
play - Play
To set those 2 commands with their explanation.
Your bot can do this by himself using the setMyCommands REST API method
A command may not start with a capitalised letter
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I have the midjourney AI bot in my discord server (i bought it) and I want to automate a bot to use the /imagine slash command (i have a big JSON file with stuff I want it to /imagine).
maybe using a bot?!?
I prefer to use python
here is what I tried:
I tried making my bot send "/imagine ...." but it just prints it instead of using the command.
With the new slash commands, discord bots are not able to call other one's, since (unlike before) it's not actually a message that has it's contents "analysed". So you can't automatically call the MidJourney bot with yours.
But MidJourney themselves have made a wrapper, which I think you should check out for what you are trying.
I've been playing around with IBM API Connect Test and Monitor (looks like a free to use rival to Postman) and would like to create an integration test (a test with multiple steps).
Looking at the example APIs it seems like it's possible, e.g. /api/examples/retail/products returns a list of products and /api/examples/retail/product (singular) looks up information on each of the products. However I can't work out how to connect the calls together. Is this definitely possible and if so how do I construct the test?
It certainly is possible to create an integration test and I can try to talk you through the steps using the example API you mentioned.
create a test in the normal way, go into "Compose" and then you may as well use the wizard option to choose "I got this, start from scratch"
Add a request and choose GET, then specify https://us-east.apitest.apiconnect.ibmcloud.com/app/api/examples/retail/products as the URL. Set the variable field to something like "products_data" or whatever you like. Save that request by clicking the tick button.
Add another request and choose "Each", set the expression to be the content of the variable you just defined, e.g. products_data.content.products. This will create a loop you can nest other requests inside. Again save and close with the tick button.
Add another request, this time a "Set (variable)". The name can be just id or whatever you like. Set the mode to string, and the value to ${_1}. Click on the tick to close and then use the mouse to drag the variable piece so it's nested under the "for each" loop.
Add one last GET request where the URL is the single item endpoint, e.g. https://us-east.apitest.apiconnect.ibmcloud.com/app/api/examples/retail/product. Inside Query Params, add the id query parameter and select "Variable" as the value, referencing id (the variable we just declared in step 4). Save and close the request and drag it into the for loop as well, underneath the variable.
Now you can run the test and it should work, generating multiple calls to the single product endpoint.
This will also work for login methods where you post to a sign-in page and obtain a session token, then use it for a set of other requests against secure endpoints.
Great question - integration testing is a powerful mechanism to simulate an actual customers interaction with your API vs. testing a single endpoint.
Here is a 2-part tutorial series that walks you through an example in detail:
Part 1: https://medium.com/apitest/how-to-never-go-hungry-again-ad0a18453fc
Part 2: https://medium.com/apitest/dessert-how-to-never-go-hungry-with-apis-3fd804515364
Hope this helps! Learn more about the product here: http://ibm.biz/apitest
I am using Python and have previously built Telegram chatbot before.
However, now I want to create a chatbot such that when someone invites it, it will send an initial message that says something like "type /start for instructions".
This is to make sure that they know what to do when they first invite the bot. Can this be possibly done?
I am trying to use bot.send_message(chat_id=chat_id, text="type /start for instructions") but the problem is I don't know how I could obtain the chat_id.
Unfortunately, you cannot do it :(
Here has another way you might interested: /setdescription in #BotFather.
It will be shown in the What can this bot do? section as the picture below.
After digging this issue - here's what I've found:
The reason:
Intuitively it seems logical to allow a feature that sends a message to a user (as a reaction to the user's action for starting the chat). BUT, because telegram APIs are truly vast there is a fair chance for abuse in this format (a message with button that drives the user for action without the user truly understand the consequences). From here my question changed from "how to implement this mechanism?" to "Which alternative do I have?"
There is an alternative!
My initial goal was to make the "what can I do here" factor as clear and effortless to the user as possible. Technically speaking - all methods that can be invoked without the chat_id can be invoked as part of your bot setup process and will affect all users. One option is to create a list of commands to your bot. This list will appear when the user use the / operator and it's a common practice among chat users. For my intention - I needed something even simpler than that and I think that the setChatMenuButton is very suitable. This method allows you to create a web app and allows the user to simply click it instead of typing text. When clicking the button it triggers a dialog that clarifies to the user what's going on and from there - it's basically your imagination that will define how the end-user will experience your process. I managed to execute this call using a wrapper that I've build (which handles the base url as well as secret key) using this code:
await api.get('setChatMenuButton', {
menu_button: JSON.stringify({
type: 'web_app',
text: 'Name of your app here',
web_app: { url: 'https://your-domain.com/ppp/path/goes/here' }
}),
})
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And a little screenshot from my experience:
I want to make a clean up script for Gmail to my needs. I happy to use a script, which code I found in a blog, but now I need to modify it.
How can I test it without risking my Gmail box? I'm not good or experienced inJS, so I'm pretty sure there will be some mistakes. And I don't want my emails messed up. Is there a sandbox, or some kind of testing environment?
No, there is not. You should create a test account for you to work with.
Also, when working with your account. You could always just log an action instead of doing it. i.e. instead of
thread.moveToTrash()
do a
Logger.log('move thread "'+thread.getFirstMessageSubject()+'" to trash');
Then check menu View > Logs to verify the actions your script would do. You could also create a TEST variable and use it as condition in your code to determine if it should perform an action or just log it (or both).
I have a requirement to send email to particular group when Teamcity's build goes green and red.
Does anyone has any idea about it ?
It is possible to configure user group and setup email notifications for this group inside TeamCity.
There are a few TeamCity plugins that you can leverage out of the box but the buildstatusnotifier
looks the most promising. You can also setup a job that gets triggerred upon completion of every build for the project you are tracking. This build will do the following:
Make a call for last status of the build project. See TeamCity REST documentation here for context. Replace "insert-base-url-here" with your teamcity base url & "btXXX" with your build id.
http://{insert-base-url-here}/app/rest/builds/buildType:(id:btXXX)/statusIcon
Save the result of this call in a DB or in a txt file
For every subsequent call, check to see if the new value is the same as the previous; if they are do not send an email. If the values do not match then proceed to step four
Send an email to the recipient/distribution list informing them of a change of status in the build status.
My personal preference will be to do all of these in an nant script but those are the steps to take.
You can also look at the Build-status tool (build-status.appspot.com) which can be setup and displayed in a highly visible place that your team will not miss should it turn red.