Currently following hot word example, I create custom commands like turn screen on/off, how do I disable voice response "sorry I can't help you"
there are multiple ways do it.follow this link and details google assistant
1 - if your using this method/project creation and run it. then you can parse the request/query in event.args['text'] based on which you can perform activity local without sending it to google assistant. problems: google will response with some voice message parallel.
2 - use IFTTT, pretty simple to work with. basic use with webhooks takes little time though. this link is useful and use ngrok for local webhook url
3 - use API.AI this is for advanced projects where you depend on google to assist with questions recognization and response with your answers from webhooks. it's not straight forward to work with, the details and tutorials that are given are with google cloud functions which works only with node.js as of now. if your python programmer or any other languages google has examples in github which are again not stright forward, I guess.
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I would like to integrate Strava(sport tracking application/platform) with google Sheets, specifically I would like to update a google sheet spreadsheet when I upload an activity in Strava. There is some that can tell me what I was to do or where do I have to seek to learn to do it? Thank you in advance!
ps. The next step will be integrate Xiaomi Mi fit with google Sheet to compile the same spreadsheet, but I think that the tools are the same or at least almost...
If you are comfortable coding and working with REST API's, you could register for a developer account at Strava (https://developers.strava.com/) and implement this feature in your language/platform of choice. However, I would recommend starting with a much simple solution.
Check out Zapier (https://zapier.com/). Zapier lets you connect apps to build new functionality without writing a single line of code. It looks like Zapier has a Strava to Google Sheet integration, which is probably the quickest way for you to get started. Zapier is super simple, and offers tons of cool functionality.
Good luck!
I'm looking for a way to integrate the Google Assistant into my chatbot and be able to get answers to general questions like "whats the weather?", "how tall is X?", "what does X mean?" etc. (just how Google Home works). Ideally this would be over a REST API and I'd get the response back inside of a JSON payload.
I looked through the Google Assistant SDK docs but it wasn't clear on how I could host/build an API that does this. Any ideas on if something like this already exists?
Yes, you use the Google Assistant SDK.
There isn't a REST API, since other requirements for the SDK are poorly suited for REST. Instead it uses gRPC, which lets them publish a standard interface and lets you compile this interface to local language bindings.
IF you are using Python, C++, or Node.js, there are already libraries available which allow you to skip the gRPC setup yourself.
I noticed that IFTTT.com is using a Google Assistant integration that allows them, basically, to set up for each of their users some kind of "trigger words" that trigger a call to a webhook. I searched a lot in the API docs and found no proper way to do the same, only ways to set up conversations or IoT interactions.
I kind of want to build something similar to the IFTTT integration with a way to programmatically set up actions via an API (not via the dashboard).
Is it possible to do or is this just a custom development Google made for IFTTT?
In my researches I found out about something called "Direct actions" but it does not seem to exist anymore in the Google Assistant Doc. Can you help me with that?
I don't know if my questions are very clear, please tell me if they are not
Thanks in advance for your help
Have a good day
Here's similar options to the IFTTT integration:
Create routines in the Google Home app. That will allow you to create custom commands that activate one or several actions.
Create a smart home action. It's a type of direct action, as opposed to a conversational action, and will let you directly invoke the Assistant for a subset of commands.
You could also create a conversational action. While it would not give you the same direct control, you can still run actions quickly by doing a deeper invocation, ie. "Ask my test app to do an action". It would also give you much greater flexibility over the input.
Does Google offer a REST or Javascript API for creating and editing slides? I've been able to figure out how to interact with sheets and most of the other services offered as part of Docs/Drive, but haven't had any luck with Slides.
If there is no API, I'd be willing to create files directly myself, but I haven't been able to find any documentation on a Slides file format.
The Google Slides API was launched on 11/9/2016. It provides the ability to read, create, and edit Google Slides presentations.
I was looking into this too. Looks like it's been a requested feature since at least 2012, follow Issue Tracker Link
Right now the best I know of is to automate making a powerpoint file (e.g. use this library for python) and then upload it to google drive where it will autoconvert. Obviously there are many limitations to this strategy, but in a quick test it worked fine for something simple.
I would also love if Google provided an API that allows making slides like the various API calls for microsoft office.
I'm using Twitter's OAuth for my app (DroidIn)
To my dismay I can't find any way to track who and how often is using the app. Searching Twitter for "sent from DroidIn" does not yield any results. I suppose I can call some sort of counter app from my code but that doesn't seem to be fair to my users. Any ideas or suggestions?
It seems that yet again I have to answer my own question. After some investigation and feedback from question posted on Google Twitter developer group it seems that for now there are no stats easily accessible or available. Said that I found 2 interesting things:
You can search Twitter using source:yourapp switch. For example you can try this query
android source:API
There is very exciting streaming API from Twitter. I have a short write-up in my dev blog.
But if you want some actual stats there's no other choice today but implement it as part of your app. There's one more possibility if you have some sort of web-based interface you may want to use Google Analytics to trigger some Google javascript while submitting the update. I'm trying that right now and may end up with article in the blog