How to invoke rasa chatbot from my own website

Rasa Open Source
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Hi,

I have implemented the rasa chatbot and got it running on my localhost. I have also been able to place it on GCS and using the external IP am able to access it and run the index.html from there and it is working fine. I have used nginx and docker-compose to achieve the same - following @JiteshGaikwad’s comments in this forum.

Now, I am stuck here. The question is, how do I get this running in our website? I also tried the custom channel imeplementation by @scalableminds code to achieve the same but that also works only in localhost.

How to invoke this chatbot on our webpage - I am a ML engineer and new to js and websockets? I know I am missing some important link here. Can someone please help.

Also is it possible to use heroku instead of GCS?

Regards Sara.

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Are you familiar with HTTP REST APIs? It is possible to use the webhooks API to have a conversation with the bot: Your Own Website But of course you would need some kind of user interface where users on your website could chat with the bot

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No, am not familiar. Is there any example I could try out?

I have made the chat widget and it works on index.html on my localhost as well as if I use GCS and run it on a server.

Regards Sara.

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I suppose that you first try out the Rasa Webhooks API using a client like Postman so you can see what a HTTP response looks like. After that you can follow that post to call that REST API from your website using JavaScript: html - How to call a REST web service API from JavaScript? - Stack Overflow

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Hi Leon,

I already have the “POST” commands in my js file which I have used for my frontend using index.html. I had followed @JiteshGaikwad’s tutorials to implement the frontend using index.html in GCS. Now I need to do the same in our own website. Thats where I am stuck. I tried using POSTMAN and it is working fine for the POSTs and GETs commands.

It would be really helpful if there was some implementation I could follow for implementing the same in my own website.

Regards Sara.

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@sara20 have you got success?

if yes, can you share the solution. Many thanks in advance!