ntgx / covid19et-messenger-bot

An informational Messenger bot for COVID-19 in Ethiopia. Available here https://m.me/110532390586248

Messenger Bot for COVID-19 awareness in Ethiopia

You can try the bot here

Progress

• Provide general information about COVID-19, prevention, and symptoms
• Provide important links, answer frequently asked questions, and dispel common myths
• Provide news, stats & emergency numbers
• Fetch latest infection stats from the official PM Office api https://api.pmo.gov.et/v1/cases
• Support multiple languages
• Use dialogflow to do NLP (smalltalk with the user and accept commands, questions)
• Fetch relevant COVID-19 news from an existing api or build one

Building and Deploying

Run $ yarn to install the dependencies and set these environment variables:

• PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN
• VERIFY_TOKEN
• APP_SECRET
• PORT

Check the Messenger Platform Quick Start for how to get the first three and to setup your webhook.

For your webhook URL you can deploy the app to heroku or if you want to run the server locally you can use ngork.

Contributing a fix or feature

1. Submit an issue describing your proposed fix or feature.
2. If your proposed fix or feature is accepted then, fork, implement your code change.
3. Ensure your code change follows the accepted code style and structure.
4. Ensure your code is properly tested.
5. Ensure your commits follow the accepted commit message style
6. Submit a pull request.

Code style and structure

The coding style must conform with the Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide. Run $yarn --dev to install the linter.

Git commit messages

This hasn't been the case so far but try to use Udacity's Git commit message style guide.

Screenshots

The main menu

What is COVID-19, Prevention

Symptoms, Important Links, Common Questions

Mythbusters, Latest announcements & news, Latest stats

Emergency Numbers, Social Distancing 101

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Nati Gossaye

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.