Chatbots and Watson: Let’s talk about national parks: course source code
Chatbots and Watson: Let’s talk about national parks: course source code
The chatbot uses Watson Conversation, Weather Company Data, React, Nodejs, and IBM Cloud to create a chatbot about National Parks.
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Ask:
./resources/conversation_workspace.json
into your Watson Conversation workspaces,.env
files in the project root with the following contentsAPP_ID=parks-conversation
PORT=3004
LOG_LEVEL=debug
SESSION_SECRET=test
WATSON_CONVERSATION_API_ROOT=https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/conversation/api
WATSON_CONVERSATION_VERSION=v1
WATSON_CONVERSATION_VERSION_DATE=2016-07-11
WATSON_CONVERSATION_USERNAME=<USERNAME>
WATSON_CONVERSATION_PASSWORD=<PASSWORD>
WATSON_CONVERSATION_WORKSPACE_ID=<WORKSPACE>
Install server dependencies
npm install
Install client dependencies
cd client
npm install
npm start
cd client && npm start
cd client
npm run build
cd ..
npm start
Navigate to http://localhost:3000
Follow the first 3 steps in the "Build / Run (Production)" section above, then run.
cf push USER_ID-nationalparks
Navigate to https://USER_ID-nationalparks.mybluemix.net
Q: In Lab 5: "Programmatically interact with Watson Conversation", I get an authentication error. What do I do?
A:
This occurs on Windows. Windows sets the USERNAME
variable to the logged in OS user. Ultimately, it ends up overriding the value for USERNAME
specified in .env
. The problem can be solved in two ways:
on step 3., hard code the USERNAME
and PASSWORD
e.g.
const conversation = new ConversationV1({
username: 'your-username',
password: 'your-password',
version_date: ConversationV1.VERSION_DATE_2016_09_20
});
or
USERNAME
env
.env
, change USERNAME
to NP_USERNAME
USERNAME
to NP_USERNAME