Dialogflow recently announced that version 2 of their API is generally available. I have been asked by some readers as to what this means for their integrations, and I have summarized it in this article. How it works v2 API is quite different from v1 API even in the way the basic system works. For…
I have a survey bot on my site on each post, and recently, I got this question: Can I use Dialogflow without writing code? And the answer, as in many things, is “it depends”. The FAQ bot One of the first bots I created for this site was an FAQ bot which simply gives links…
Today on the Dialogflow forum I answered this very question. Here is the answer, in one screenshot: Share feature Interestingly, the Share feature has been around for nearly 4 months. I wrote about it when it was released. Funnily enough, when thinking of the title back then, I actually used the suggestions at the bottom…
What should I do when my DialogFlow webhook takes too long (more than 5 seconds) to respond? I have seen this question on the DialogFlow forum appear in a few different forms. Ultimately, this is the goal: You want to send an unprompted, “out-of-band” message to the end user from your DialogFlow webhook What is…
If you have the choice to go for Python or NodeJS instead of PHP, I recommend using the other two options (between the two, I prefer Python). You will probably find it quite hard to find a lot of discussion online about using PHP with Dialogflow. This is intended to be a very basic, beginner’s…