foxsportsaustralia / sports-bot

Basic implementation of wit.ai and slackbot for our Hackathon(GameChanger) day.

Fox SPORTS SportsBot

Requirements

Make sure you're using node 6.7.0 or higher. Had some issues around sockets inside of @slack/client or node-wit that didn't seem to run under node 4.

Startup

Copy env-sample.json to env.json and fill in the details.

wit.ai requires an app and some stories created. Use witai-sportsbot.zip as a starting basis, and update your env.json to the specified keys (we didn't end up using them all).

Create a Bot from your team's integration management and take note of the API key to enter into env.json

Phrases

You can communicate with your Sports Bot with a number of phrases but not that only one of his response set is publicly accessible (at this stage).

1. Get top five players for runs
2. Get top 6 teams for tries
   • (best|top|lowest|bottom|worse) (players|teams) (1-10) (stat-type)
3. Show tries for Johnathan Thurston
   • (stat-type) (player-name)
4. What was the score between sharks and rabbits
   • (team-name) (team-name)
5. When is the sharks game on?
   • (team-name)
6. Hi sportsbot
7. Who will win Game Changer

Phrasing 1 and 2 will work as it uses a public API, the rest is off an internal API that was created on the day as it required some fuzzy searching against player names.