In this tutorial, I explain how you can use the Dialogflow Messenger to create an interactive learning bot. An interactive learning bot asks the user a set of questions and teaches them concepts based on their responses. What we are building In our case, our interactive learning bot will help explain the common Dialogflow mistakes that newbies make. You can interact with the live bot here. Flowchart You can see the flowchart for this bot in the image below. If you would like to learn about the conventions used in the image, you can check out the article on Dialogflow flowcharts. Intents Let us take a look at the intents in this chatbot. Default Welcome Intent Notice the following this […]

In this tutorial, I explain how you can use the Dialogflow Messenger to create a checklist bot. A checklist bot walks the user through a checklist of items. What we are building We will be building a bot which checks if the user is familiar with the 10 must know (in my opinion) Dialogflow features. You can interact with the live bot here. Flowchart The image below is the flowchart for the checklist bot. If you would like to learn about the conventions used in the image, take a look at my article on Dialogflow flowcharts. Note: the picture above is not the full flowchart. You can see that there are 21 collapsed nodes just under the intent named 3.bulkuploadentities.YES. […]

In this tutorial, I explain how you can use the Dialogflow Messenger to create a decision tree chatbot. As the name implies, a decision tree chatbot is a bot which asks a set of questions and helps the user make a decision. What we are building We will be building a bot which helps the user to decide the programming language to use for their Dialogflow chatbot. You can interact with the bot here. Flowchart Here is what the flowchart for this bot looks like. If you would like to learn more about the conventions used below, check out my article about Dialogflow flowcharts. Intents Now let us go through the intent definitions. Default Welcome intent Notice the following: the […]

I got this comment recently on my YouTube channel: So how do you render a user message when the user clicks a suggestion chip? And how to respond to the message from your bot? In other words, how can we make the selection of a suggestion chip in the Dialogflow Messenger move the conversation forward to the next intent? You might recall my earlier tutorial on getting started with the Dialogflow Messenger. I am going to be extending the same agent to explain this topic. What we are building Here is a demo which shows what we will be building in this tutorial. You can interact with the bot here. The Basic idea When user clicks on a suggestion chip […]

In this tutorial, I explain how to add a chatbot to your website using the Dialogflow Messenger integration. What we will be building The video below shows what we will be building in this tutorial. Embed the chat widget into your website Embedding the chat widget into your website is straight-forward. Create your Dialogflow agent Create a new Dialogflow agent, and remove the Welcome event from the Default Welcome Intent. Add a new intent into your agent with the following information (note that it includes the Welcome event). Add the script to your web page Once you create your welcome intent, go to the Integrations pane, and select the Dialogflow Messenger integration. Now copy the script into your clipboard. Paste […]

Recently, Dialogflow introduced a new feature called Dialogflow Messenger, which allows you to easily add a chatbot to your website. The feature is still in Beta, and the docs mention that things may change over time. But first, a rant. The naming of the feature is very odd, considering it not only sounds a lot like Facebook Messenger, but there is ALSO a Dialogflow + Facebook Messenger integration. And to make matters worse, it is also possible to embed your Facebook Messenger bot (which may or may not have been built using Dialogflow) in your website. Let us not forget, generally speaking, similar sounding product names can also cause real confusion when it comes to SEO. So Dialogflow Messenger now wants […]

I have created a free tool which allows you to turn your WordPress website into a Dialogflow FAQ chatbot with a single click. This article assumes you understand how Dialogflow works, at least at a basic level. To be able to use this tool, there are a few more concepts you should understand. The basic idea Inside a Dialogflow intent, you need 3 things (at the minimum): the name of the intent a set of training phrases a set of responses And the name of the intent should be unique. When you are creating an FAQ bot out of your WordPress website, you need to figure out the following: how to name the intents? how to generate the training phrases? […]

I have created a Lesson Finder bot to help students search for specific lessons inside my course website. The interesting this is – this bot was automatically generated. Check out my YouTube playlist where I explain how you can do this.