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Few weeks ago I did a very basic experiment to create, for one of our test websites, a bot<\/a> on Telegram<\/a><\/b><\/span> and to feed it with data coming from their WordPress website<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Camminando Con<\/a> is a trekking organization, offering hiking tours in a small valley one hour from Rome and the content structure of their website reflects their simple business model. They use WordLift to structure this content in a way that allows them to exploit it in several ways. <\/span><\/p>\n

WordLift helps digital editors organizing and structuring the content of a website. WordLift creates open datasets<\/a> of all the things <\/i>that matter and publishes them as open data<\/i><\/span>.<\/p>\n

\"WebsitePresenting their excursions – structured by WordLift as events <\/i>using the schema.org vocabulary – they describe all the sites they visit on their tours – represented as places <\/i>in schema.org<\/a><\/span> – so that anyone, by reading their site, can get a good understanding of the upcoming events and the territory they will explore.<\/span><\/p>\n

This structured data is then connected through WordLift’s interactive map and discovery widgets that allow<\/span> their users to explore related content.<\/p>\n

Once the content work is done, they promote it via their website and an active Facebook page. I thought I could add a new interaction channel to their communication plan, leveraging the knowledge graph they create event after event. <\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s build the Bot<\/h4>\n

Telegram is a messaging platform similar to WhatsApp, WeChat or Facebook Messenger that lets users communicate in groups or one-to-one. I\u2019ve chosen Telegram because chat-bots can be easily created: you simply chat with another Bot called the \u2018BothFather\u2019 (just look for it and add it to your contact list) and your automata will be ready to go in a second. Here are the steps you need to follow: <\/span><\/p>\n

BotFather supports several commands; to create a new Bot open a chat with him and send the \/newbot<\/em> command.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Bot<\/p>\n

\"Bot<\/p>\n

Take note of the API key (token) and remember that a bot always uses a user name ending in <\/span>bot <\/span>(i.e. WordLiftBot<\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n

\"TelegramNow create a new public (or private) <\/span>channel and add the bot as administrator of the channel (the bot does\u2019t appear in the list of friend so you will need to remember its name and type it – WordLiftBot <\/i>in our case).<\/span><\/p>\n

Your Bot is now the admin of the chat channel. Not bad in just few minutes, right? What\u2019s next? <\/span><\/p>\n

Next we need to get an update every time a new event is published on the CamminandoCon website. In the CamminandoCon website, as seen earlier, events are constantly updated to promote the upcoming hiking tours and every event focuses on 3 or 4 locations at the time (villages or point of interests that will be seen while walking).<\/p>\n

To recall their events we are going to use an HTTP end-point that WordLift adds to every website: <\/span>http:\/\/<yourwebsite>\/wl_entity_type\/event<\/span><\/em><\/span>; through this end-point we can get an ordered list of all the events published on the site; adding \/feed\/<\/span><\/em> to this URL (<\/span>http:\/\/<yourwebsite>\/wl_entity_type\/event\/feed<\/em>) <\/span>the list is automatically converted by WordPress into an RSS feed<\/a> that we can use with our Bot. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"IFTTTTo glue our Telegram Bot with the RSS feed coming from WordLift – without writing a single line of code<\/i><\/span><\/span> – I used IFTTT<\/a>. Get a login there (if you don’t have one already) and create a new recipe IF > Feed adding the RSS feed generated by WordLift.<\/p>\n

The THEN part is a Maker (a simple app that lets you send web requests to publicly available APIs) and here is how to configure it:
\n\"IFTTT<\/p>\n

Last, y<\/span>ou have to use the API key received by the Bot Father and add it before the <\/span>\/sendMessage<\/span><\/em> as shown above (<\/span>https:\/\/api.telegram.org\/<your-api-key>\/sendMessage<\/em>). <\/span>The method is set to <\/span>POST <\/span>and the Content Type is <\/span>application\/x-www-form-urlencoded<\/em>. T<\/span>he Body contains the actual message that the Bot shall send. Here we can see we\u2019re asking to send the update in the @<\/em><\/span>CamminandoCon <\/span><\/em>channel and the text is a combination of elements derived from the RSS feed such as the Title<\/em>, the URL<\/em><\/span> and the Image<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here is the result as seen on the Telegram desktop client.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Telegram<\/p>\n

Happy Bot development!<\/p>\n

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