Code used in session for Cisco Partners. Topic: Webex bots in Python.

• (free) Webex Message account free
• Python 3.9 download
• Ngrok download
• Libraries (webexteamssdk, requests, flask) (see below)
• (free) Kiara translate account via RapidAPI link

pip install webexteamssdk

pip install flask

pip install requests

Create a Webex Bot that translates text from a detected language to a configured destination language. Format:

<countrycode> <text_to_translate>

Example:

"de remember when we had live events with real people"

Will translate this scentence to 'de' (German)

As listed above

Using flask:

step1-webserver.py

Using the Webex SDK - send message to Webex user:

step2-send-webexteams-message.py

Using the Webex SDK - create a webhook for the bot:

step3-create-webhook.py

Get the actual message text:

step4-bot-get-message.py

Make the bot NOT respond to it's own messages

step5-bot-dontlistento-yourself.py

Now add the final step that turns it into a translation bot!

step6-bot-translate.py

• Translation service: Kiara Translation API v2
• Code used in this session: this page (https://github.com/DJF3/webex-teams-bot-session)

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