What I'm looking to do is to create a bot that will be in a private channel only accessible to the admins. All users will have keywords that they have chosen prior and will get notified about. Lets say user 'x', has chosen "brown" as a keyword, when a comment comes into the private channel containing the keyword "brown", I want the bot to send that message, copy and pasted, directly to the user 'x' that chose that keyword. So basically I would like to know how to make a bot they has a keyword feature that copies that exact message and dm's that user that chose that keyword.
Is this possible, if so how would I go about it?
Thanks
Most of the bots i have made, i have used python.
Selenium web-driver is fairly easy to use if you intend on scraping the data from HTML pages.
In any case, you could use flask and mysql.connector to create the user interface and login for control of the bot.
If there are any other things you want it to do, i'm sure there's a library out there to do it, or you could just launch some kind of macro or script on the server.
Be very careful of permissions and whatnot if you intend on allowing remote control of other scripts and data on the server though.
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I'm posting here because I'm hoping someone can help me edit the link to a google sheet. I haven't been able to find the answer online, but I'm hoping maybe someone understands how the link works better than I and can give me an answer.
I've been tasked with updating the application for funding (from a non-profit) to include a budget category. The application is in Google Forms, but there's no way to insert a table into the form for an applicant to fill out. I created the budget outline in a Google Sheet, but now I'm trying to find the best solution to create an individual link within the form that will lead them to the budget document. Essentially, I'm hoping the applicant can fill out the form, and when they reach the section about their budget, I want them to click the link to the google sheet, have it make a copy, but have the copy be shared with the organization's google account so we can see it when they submit their application.
I've experiment with the forced copy feature (editing the shared link by google), but when I test it from a different google account than the owner, it tells me I have to request permission. The share settings are set to allow anyone with the link to access, so I don't understand why it's asking me to request permission when I open the force copy link. This isn't going to work because the applicants need to access it when applying, and we can't have them waiting for us to accept the request every time.
I'm sure there could be a few solutions, so I'm open to any advice. The only other solution I can possibly think of is creating individual links for each applicant, if there's a way to automate that?
I recognize there could be a solution where I ask the applicant to download the file and re-upload, or share it themselves, but our applicants are not native english speakers and they are often non very comfortable with technology, so I want to automate the process as much as possible.
To summarize: The applicant should be able to
Fill out the google form
Receive an individual copy of the budget document (from google sheets) to fill out.
The budget document must be shared with the original owner so we can see it and see how it relates to the rest of their application.
Thank you for your consideration!
A solution for your use-case would be to make use of Apps Script.
Apps Script is a powerful development platform which can be used to build web apps and automate tasks. What makes it special is the fact that it is easy to use and to create applications that integrate with G Suite.
Taking this into account, you can create a script which will create a copy of the document whenever a new form submission is made and add the permissions needed for the user. Essentially, you will be the one owning the copy of the sheet as well and the candidates will have edit permissions.
Therefore, the script will end up looking something similar to this:
Code
function onFormSubmit() {
let sheetId = 'ORIGINAL_SPREADSHEET_ID';
let form = FormApp.getActiveForm();
let responses = form.getResponses();
let n = responses.length;
let currentUser = form.getResponse(responses[n-1].getId()).getRespondentEmail();
let newSpreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById(sheetId).copy("Sheet copy for " + currentUser);
let newSpreadsheetId = newSpreadsheet.getId();
DriveApp.getFileById(newSpreadsheetId).addEditor(currentUser);
}
Explanation
The above snippet makes use of the Apps Script's onFormSubmit installable trigger. Basically, whenever a new form submission is sent, the code above will run. The code will retrieve the last response which was submitted and get the user's email address by making use of the getRespondentEmail method. Afterwards, a copy of the original spreadsheet will get created and shared with the editor permission with the user who just submitted the form. Adding the permission is done by making use of the addEditor method from the DriveApp parent class. As for the user accessing the copy of the spreadsheet, this is easily done as the user will end up receiving an email telling them that a spreadsheet has been shared with them.
Setup
You will have to have the Collect emails option checked for the form;
Open the three dots icon and click on Script Editor;
Once you open the script editor, input the code from above and do not forget to modify the sheetId such that it matches the id of your original spreadsheet that you want to share.
Install the onFormSubmit trigger by going to the Triggers page and create a new trigger with the following options:
Send the URL form to the candidates and wait for submission to be sent.
Reference
Google Apps Script;
Apps Script Installable Triggers;
Apps Script SpreadsheetApp Class;
Apps Script FormApp Class;
Apps Script DriveApp Class.
I work in a large enterprise where multiple teams are developing Lex bots (on separate accounts). Each bot supports a different domain or application,. In some cases, it would be nice for a single user interface to ask a question without needing to know which bot to ask. Is there a way to federate bots, or to forward un-recognized intentions to 'backup' bots?
I feel like what I really want to do is treat each bot as a skill is treated in Alexa, except I'm in the position (through entitlements) to know which 'skills' would be appropriate for a given user.
The answer here is that you would need to develop a custom application that delivers a user's input to each of your company's array of bots.
You'd need to look at the NLU Confidence score from each Bot's response to decide which response is the most accurate to return to the user. Would also be worthwhile keeping some state in your app to remember which Bot the user is currently interacting with and defaulting to that Bot for successive user inputs. Should you reach a point where the confidence score is low, it might present a signal to you to test the user's input across the other Bots.
What you'll need to be aware of here is that your costs will increase with each additional Bot that you add. So, assuming you have 5 area-specific Bots, one inbound message from your user could result in 5 Lex calls. As you start moving into significant volumes of interactions, this could start proving to be an obstacle.
An alternative would be to use a custom fallback intent to invoke a Lambda function that calls your Bot orchestration function. Assuming that you're able to find the correct Bot to handle the user's query, you'd need to remember that so succesive messages now get routed to that Bot.
I love graphs.
I'd love to get my hands on some data and make it look pretty. But alas, I'm a little lost on what would be considered best practice.
I've selected mixpanel (only as an example) as I seems wonderfully easy to track custom events, and doesn't have any subdomain limitation like Google Analytics.
Say I had 100-1000+ users who have an account (which is publicly facing), and I'm currently tracking the public interactions their pages get. With mixpanel, I can see the data which is lovely, and I've segmented it to individual accounts. So far, so good!
But then, I want to show my users this information. And here my head begins to hurt. Do I schedule a cron jobs, pulling in the data from mixpanel and writing it to their respective accounts? Or is there a better way? I've looked into mixpanel's api (I'm using Ruby), but they keep telling me I should use the javascript api. But in using JS, how does one prevent others getting the data (ie. what's stopping someone faking mixpanel api-posts in the console, or viewing my private key?).
What would you consider a practical solution in such a case?
You can achieve this by storing the user specific events of each user with a $bucket property attached which has a value unique to each user as explained in the mixpanel docs here Mixpanel docs. If you want to still use ruby to serve the events, have a look at Mixpanel's recommended ruby client libraries
mixpanel_client looks like the much maintained option of the 2 mentioned. If you go with that then you can serve user specific events as shown in the example below(which is also in the gem's readme):
data = client.request do
# Available options
resource 'events/properties'
event '["test-event"]'
name 'hello'
values '["uno", "dos"]'
timezone '-8'
type 'general'
unit 'hour'
interval 24
limit 5
bucket 'contents'
from_date '2011-08-11'
to_date '2011-08-12'
on 'properties["product_id"]'
where '1 in properties["product_id"]'
buckets '5'
end
You could try a service like Keen IO that will allow you to generate encrypted scoped write and read API keys. Keen IO is built for customizable and programmatic analytics features such as exposing analytics to your customers, where as MixPanel is more for exploring your data in their UI. The idea with an encrypted scoped key is they will never be able to access your account, only the data you want them to see. You could easily tag your events with a customer ID and then use the Scoped Keys to ensure that you only ever show customers their own data.
https://keen.io/docs/security/#scoped-key
Also, Keen IO has an "importer" which allows you to export your mixpanel events into your Keen IO database.
I have never worked with the twitter api, so I have no idea if this is possible. What I want to do is to trigger a url everytime something new happens on a users timeline (?). Is this possible, and if so, how do I do it?
Yes, but it takes a bit of work. You need to use the twitter streaming API, specifically the follow option.
From twitter:
Example: Create a file called ‘following’ that contains, exactly and
excluding the quotation marks: “follow=12,13,15,16,20,87” then
execute:
curl -d #following https://stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json
-uAnyTwitterUser:Password.
Basically you pass a list of user ids you want to follow, open a long-lived connection, and twitter sends back to you anything that the user posts publicly. You can monitor this connection and do things when a user posts something.
You have another option, called a User Stream , which gets you way more information about when a user does anything, but it requires the user's approval, and a much more complex authentication process via oAuth. So I would only use that if you need it.
How you're going to be keeping a persistant connection open to twitter is something very much dependent on your programming language and software. In Python, I really like tweepy, but even for python there are several different libraries, or you can just use curl or pycurl and do it yourself like in the example above.
I want to write an application that assigns Fogbugz cases programmatically, how would I accomplish this? Is it possible to achieve this given any of the following scenarios:
The user enters text in my
application's input field and the
Fogbugz report is opened in the
browser where the "note" field is
populated with the text from the user
input
The fogbugz report is assigned to the
specified user in the application
without the browser even being opened
i.e. the report is stored directly in
the DB.
I'm planning to add default values to the other fields as well so I would assume the process would be the same for adding text to the "note" field.
You can do this with the Fogbugz API. See the heading "Editing Cases" for the specifics on how to edit a case (which includes creating a new one). It's a little complicated (or perhaps just oddly designed) but, as I remember, you basically have to call cmd=new if you want to create a new case, supply your text in the 's' parameter and set the ixPersonAssignedTo to the correct person. For an existing case, use cmd=edit.
This is possible both with a regular form posted to your Fogbugz installation and some server side code that calls the API.
You might want to write a plugin for FB and allow others to use it. (share it or sell it)