Hi All, I worked with Rasa long back and now all the docs had changed. I tried to implement the Rest api(post api) for accessing the chat bot through my website. For this i want to write the custom channel. Can anyone help me on doing this like any good tutorial or documentation.
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Hi @chinnusujitha,
I am trying to do the same. I found a bunch of articles using different techniques, but havent yet found the right soultion. I will let you know if I succeed in doing so.
Hey @chinnusujitha, just follow the below steps to connect your bot to custom channel using REST api,
Step1: you need to ensure your credentials.yml has the following content:
Step2: Once you have trained your bot, you can start your bot server by running the below command
rasa run -m models --enable-api --cors ā*ā --debug
Once you run this command, you can see the below output in the terminal
Step3: Once your server is up and running you can access your bot throught REST api, given below:
Step4: Now you can test the api:
You can try out my custom UI : https://github.com/JiteshGaikwad/Rasa_CustomUI-v_2.0
I hope this will help you 
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Is it normal that the Two Stage Fallback Policy doesnāt work when using the rest api ? It works when Iām using websocket.
Thank you
No, it should work
Okay, actually the problem is bigger than I thought:
Each time I have a question with buttons, clicking on button doesnāt execute the intent it should but the fallback policy.
When Iām trying to send http request manually I get the same problem, do you have any clue what could be the problem ?
Would you otherwise maybe have a working example so I can try to debug ?
Thank you in advance
hey @EvanD, I think so the problem lies in payload of buttons, make sure whenever you click the buttons, the payload is getting triggered properly?
Well, Iāve tried to change the format of the payload in the domain file but in vain.
Iām not sure what you mean by triggered properly, but Iād say yes.
For example, I have an intent called UploadTracksFTP and a button which has for title āMore than 1000ā with its payload /UploadTracksFTP
When I click on it, it sends as request payload :
{"message":"More than 1000","sender":"username"}
And I receive an empty list as response payload.
Would you have any further explanation ?
Thank you for your time
Well actually I realize the request payload message should be the name of the intent ā/UploadTracksFTPā and not the title of the button. Though I donāt get why thereās such an error, is that linked to a rasa update or something ?
Anyway Iām now be able to do what I want, thank you for your help
hey @EvanD, I am glad it worked out & itās not related to update of the rasa, it was due to the message that you were sending through payload. 
Actually I was referring to the payload as described here:
Sorry that I didnāt mentioned about it clearly previously.
Hi @shreyask92,
Thanks for the reply. I would thankful if you share me the solution once you succeed.
Hi @JiteshGaikwad,
Thanks for the reply.Yes it is helpful for me.
I ran the nlu model using:
python3 -m rasa train nlu -c config.yml --fixed-model-name current -u data/data2Insights.json --out models -v -vv
And core model using:
python3 -m rasa train core -d domain.yml -s stories.md --debug --out models/dialogue -v
Then i ran the bot using this command:
rasa run -m models --enable-api --cors ā*ā --debug
Then i got an warning:
2019-07-11 12:58:23 WARNING rasa.core.interpreter - No local NLU model ā/tmp/tmp26x19_ee/nluā found. Using RegexInterpreter instead.
By bot behaved weirdly means - If i say hi to it it is saying bye. Can you please help me on this.
And also if i want to run with different host other than localhost and different port number not an default one(5005), where i need to give those credentials?
You are facing the above warning because there was no nlu model found. make sure you have models tar file in the models folder.
if you want to change the default port of the rasa server you can pass the port number to the -p argument
rasa run -m models --enable-api --cors ā*ā --debug -p 5004
Hi @JiteshGaikwad, I have my nlu model in models folder only. Please see this screenshot.
And if i want to change the localhost to some ip address then where i need to change it?
I want something like this:
http://:5005/webhooks
After webook i dont need again rest/webhook.
Thanks in Advance.
Hi @chinnusujitha,
When you are running the bot you specify the location of the model using ā-m modelsā, and since you trained only rasa core, your latest model does not contain an nlu model. Instead use ārasa train --force <optional_parm>ā, this would create the latest version of both core and nlu in one single tar.gz file, and you will not see this error again when you run your bot.
Hi @shreyask92, Thank You, That worked for me but if i have nlu model and core model in separate zip files(as shown in my above screen shot), how should i have to tell that to rasa run?
Hi All,
Can anyone help me on this..@chinnusujitha the easiest way would be to manually unzip the files, move all the files in one to the other, and re-zip. (then remove the core-). At the moment, I donāt believe there is a way to pull separate core and nlu models ā this was the point of merging the train method, to make combined core and nlu models out of the box (ofc you can still also use nlu-only or core-only)
The train method will only re-train whichever parts have been modified, so nlu will not retrain if you just add stories ā therefore thereās really no downside to creating combined models if youāre using core and nlu.
Is this API documentation given in rasa docs? I couldnāt find itā¦