How to Build a Webex Chatbot in Node.js

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Yarn

First, we’ll initialize a new Node.js project for our server, using yarn. In a terminal on your local machine, do the following:.

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ngrok

WebhookUrl: This is the URL where we will deploy our chatbot backend, and it’s where Webex will send requests whenever events involving our chatbot occur. For this post, we’ll deploy locally and tunnel with ngrok to get a URL.

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ExpressJS

Our chatbot uses the webex-node-bot-framework, which abstracts away the complexities of Webex bot creation, allowing you to build chatbot interaction through a Node.js Express server and event listeners.

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