Giphy

https://github.com/meya-ai/community/tree/master/examples/giphybot

Notable concepts:

Custom component with an API call

states:
    get_tag:
        component: meya.input_string
        properties:
            text: "What sort of gif?"
            output: tag
    output_gif:
        component: giphy

This flow asks the user what type of gif they'd like to see and outputs a Giphy gif using the Giphy API.

The giphy component reads the datastore to get the type of gif the user specified and creates a message with the Giphy-supplied search result.

from meya import Component
import requests

API_KEY = "dc6zaTOxFJmzC"
API_URL = "http://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/random?tag={tag}&api_key={key}"


class Giphy(Component):
    """Outputs a random giphy url based on passed in tag as either
    a property or flow db"""

    def start(self):
        tag = self.properties.get('tag') or \
            self.db.flow.get('tag') or "funny"

        response = requests.get(API_URL.format(tag=tag, key=API_KEY))
        gif = response.json()['data']['url']

        message = self.create_message(text=gif)

        return self.respond(message=message, action="next")

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