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Wyvest
Wyvest

Reputation: 11

How do I use a webhook in dialogflow?

I've just started using Dialogflow. I'm new in it, and I don't really do that much advanced code. I tried using the prebuilt Currency Converter Agent, but then I realized I had to configure some kind of webhook (i've never heard about webhooks). How do I use it, and how would I configure the webhook to match with this prebuilt agent?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 218

Answers (1)

Prisoner
Prisoner

Reputation: 50741

A "webhook" is code that runs on a website, but isn't meant for people to access directly. Instead, some other program accesses it at the URL for the webhook and sends it some information, usually in a data-specific format such as JSON. Similarly, instead of returning HTML, it returns data in JSON format again for the calling program to use.

Dialogflow uses this for fulfillment - it sends the fulfillment webhook information about what the user has entered (the Intent, parameters set during it, etc) via a special JSON formatted request, and expects a specially formatted JSON response.

You can run this webhook anywhere that has a publicly accessible hostname that is running an HTTPS server. However, Dialogflow also has an Inline Editor which lets you write simple fulfillment without having to worry about some of the details involved in setting up a webhook.

Upvotes: 2

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