Connect voluntary blood donors with recipients. Chatbot built with Here, Telegram, Facebook messenger, Wit ai, and Sails JS

1. Here Developers Account
2. Wit AI Account.
3. Facebook Messenger Account.
4. Telegram Account.
5. Mac OS (feel free to use any OS).
6. Git.
7. Node (NPM)
8. Sails JS.
9. Mongo DB.
10. Ngrok or a cloud hosting service (DigitalOcean, AWS).

1. Create a freemium account via Here.
2. Create an API Key and store it in your OS environment variable by running:

export HERE_API_KEY=YOUR-API-KEY

3. Create places data layer and store the space ID in your OS environment variable by running:

export HERE_SA_PLACE_SPACE_ID=YOUR-SPACE-ID

Note: We used South Africa data layer. Feel free to replace HERE_SA_PLACE_SPACE_ID with your preferred variable name and also update it in your code 4. Create an access token and store it in your OS environment variable by running:

export HERE_ACCESS_TOKEN=YOUR-ACCESS-TOKEN

1. Create a new chatbot via BotFather.
2. Store the newly created telegram bot access token in your OS environment variable by running:

export TELEGRAM_TOKEN=YOUR-ACCESS-TOKEN

1. Follow the necessary steps to create a developer account and chatbot via Facebook Messenger Documentation.
2. Store your Facebook token in your OS environment variable by running:

export FACEBOOK_TOKEN=YOUR-FACEBOOK-APP-TOKEN

1. Store the wit.ai server access token in your OS environment variable by running:

export WIT_AI_TOKEN=YOUR-WITAI-ACCESS-TOKEN

Navigate to the project directory in your terminal and install the necessary packages

npm install

Start the project by running:

npm run start

npm run dev

Open a new terminal, Navigate to the project directory and start your Ngrok Server

ngrok http 1500

To set the webhook URL to your telegram chatbot, run this in your terminal. Note: Replace YOUR_NGROK_URL with your Ngrok server URL.

curl https://api.telegram.org/bot$TELEGRAM_TOKEN/setWebhook?url=https://YOUR_NGROK_URL/flow/callback/telegram

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

MIT