I'm creating a complex chatbot which will need user testing. It might be useful to be able to download the inbox data as json for intents that are not understood, rather than dealing with it in on the online wit user interface. Is this possible at all?
(Disclaimer: I work on Wit)
We currently don't offer an API for the Inbox (fetch/validate).
Can you describe your use case a little more?
Notably, would you build a UI similar to the Inbox? how would you handle entity tagging?
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The Wit AI project added a new concept called Story to their Converse functionality. Is there a way to manage (create/edit/verify) these Wit AI Stories via their HTTP API?
This is what the Wit.ai team said when asked about having an API for stories:
"Not yet, unfortunately. The only workaround is to use the export/import and update the JSON files but I agree this is not great. Or to try to emulate the calls made by Console...very hacky sorry."
You can try API.ai, their API is more complete and it's free as well.
I'm new to mobile development and have been looking for a way to retrieve basic email information from simple POP3/SMTP email servers.
I've seen many posts on how to send email using numerous Cordova plugins, etc., but I'm simply trying to retrieve email information for various listing and analysis purposes.
Is this even possible?
Thanks for the help and suggestions on where to start.
Cordova does not have built-in functionality for POP3/SMTP access. As inside your codova app you are running in the javascript/webview sandbox, you don't have socket access, so you can't implement this kind of functionality there.
This leaves you no choice but to implement a Cordova Plugin. You are in Objective-C land now, but unfortunately there aren't any convenient classes in the standard framework for accessing POP3/SMTP. Your best bet is using a library like MailCore.
Details on how to implement a Cordova Plugin (as well as passing the relevant email data from and to your javascript layer) are outside the scope of a simple StackOverflow answer, but the process is (fortunately) well documented.
Is it possible to use Mailchimp API to subscribe emails to the lists of MY USERS' Mailchimp Accounts and not my own?
Basically I have a web app, and users collect emails of various subscribers through this app. I then want them to be able to click a button and subscribe all those emails to their lists.
I've looked at Mailchimp's API - particularly the /lists/subscribe and the /lists/batch-subscribe methods. However so far it appears that these will only work for your own Mailchimp account and not for remote users' accounts.
Can someone please tell me whether what I'm trying to achieve is possible with Mailchimp's API?
You would need to execute the api-calls with your users' api-key, which would mean that you execute the calls with their credentials.
There are three different ways to get their api keys, with different practicality levels.
You guess. They look like guids without dashes, and some information about which datacenter it is associated with. Some easy (and somewhat bad) calculations indicate that there are 2^128 api keys in every datacenter, so this will consume both cpu- and network-resources, and invoke the rage of the Mailchimp. The linked image shows him on a good day. He won't be as pleasant if you choose this alternative. Dont do this.
You ask, in an evil way, for their username/password. This is bad since it will give you to all accounts those credentials works with. This would also give you access to stuff that aren't available using api calls (like payment stuff). This wont work at all if your user is intelligent administrators that are using AlterEgo, the two-factory security alternative. This alternative is less bad than blindly guessing, but still provides too much access, if it works at all.
You ask, in a user-friendly way (with perhaps some quick tutorials), for the user to generate an api-key in mailchimp to provide to you. This is the Good Alternative (tm).
You may choose any implementation as long as you choose number three.
My school is using a website to manage grades, homework and communication with teachers. Because there is no way to get automatic notification, most students have to use it daily to check manually if there's an update (new message, new grade, etc). Since their service has no API, what should I do to get automatic notifications.
Is there any tools available that automatically notify you (by email or rss feed) of any change in a page by authentifying and checking if the value of a specific field changed?
Should I code my own script?
Is there any tool or library out there that could make this task easier?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
https://www.changedetection.com/
Not sure if it works for secure websites, though.
I just found something interesting. It's called Scrapy. It's an application framework that makes data-mining and structured data extraction easier.
Has anyone experience with Scrapy? Could it solve my problem?
Would a script that sets display messages for instant messengers be simple or complex? After some searching, there doesn't seem to be any information about this at all.
For the sake of an example, if I had a text file of quotations, would it be possible to have the google talk display message change to a different quotation hourly?
Depends on which client you're using. As far as I know, Google's client doesn't offer any interface for plugins, but the open source instant messenger Pidgin does. I think there already is a plugin for what you want to do, but you can write your own using the documentation and examples they give you.
The complexity of writing something like this is based on how much C or Perl you know, since you can program in either of those for Pidgin. Reading code from other people's plugins, you should be able to figure out the Pidgin API.
You can use Kik API to programmatically send rich content and files between mobile applications. It is available for iPhone and Android platforms and takes only about 5 lines of code to integrate into your app. There is more info at the API website: http://www.kik.com/dev
Disclaimer: I'm on of the developers behind Kik API :)