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Posting a message in Symphony from Python

I'm trying to send a message from Symphony using Python.
https://developers.symphony.com/restapi/reference#create-message-v4
I found this page but I don't really know how to use it ( There's a cURL and a post url .. ) and I don't understand how I can use requests in this context ( still a beginner in API ).
Can someone help me to figure out how I can use this page to send a message from Python.
Thank you

You have to pass some required things in headers and use multipart/from-data content-type.
If you know about the postman then first with that and pass required headers.
files ={"message":"<messageML>Hello world!</messageML>"}
headers={
"sessionToken": "SESSION_TOKEN",
"keyManagerToken": "KEY_MANAGER_TOKEN"
}
requests.post("https://YOUR-AGENT-URL.symphony.com/agent/v4/stream/:sid/message/create", files=files,headers=headers)

https://github.com/finos/symphony-bdk-python/blob/main/examples has alot of examples on how to use symphony sdk. From python you don't want to use the api. This is the simple code to send a message from a bot. If you do not have a bot set up yet, follow https://docs.developers.symphony.com/building-bots-on-symphony/configuration/configure-your-bot-for-bdk-2.0-for-python NOTE you will need an admin user to follow these steps.
from symphony.bdk.core.config.loader import BdkConfigLoader
from symphony.bdk.core.symphony_bdk import SymphonyBdk
config = BdkConfigLoader.load_from_file("config.yaml")
async with SymphonyBdk(config) as bdk:
streams = bdk.streams()
messages = bdk.messages()
user_id = 123 # this can be found by clicking on a profile and copy profile link eg symphony://?userId=31123123123
stream = await streams.create_im_or_mim([user_id])
await messages.send_message(stream.id, f"<messageML>Message you want to send</messageML>")

How can I use the output of a python script as RASA’s input instead of the usual user input?

I am currently using RASA and developed a working chatbot. One part of my project is to use a speech-to-text recognition, and I wrote a working code in Python that returns the text said by the user.
I want to use that text for RASA’s input, instead of writing like usual.
I saw there was something to do with the inputs channels, but I only saw input that are other webservices and couldn’t figure it out for using just a local script.
Thank you for any advice,
LM

You can try rasa REST API for this purpose. Make sure that you have action_endpoint url in endpoints.yml. Normally it is
url: "http://localhost:5055/webhook"
Then make sure your rasa bot is up and if htere are any custom actions, start that server as well.
After starting your webhook, you can simple call
http://localhost:5005/webhooks/rest/webhook
and in the payload you have to put below payload
messagePayload = {
sender: 'default',
message: 'Your message is here'
}
and finally add httpheader content type as application/json like below
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
Now your bot will work fine.
tldr;
If you are using request in your python for api calls, you can try below code.
import requests
API_ENDPOINT = "http://localhost:5005/webhooks/rest/webhook"
messagePayload = {
sender: 'default',
message: 'Your message is here'
}
r = requests.post(url = API_ENDPOINT, data = messagePayload)

How about just using Rest API that is already present in the library.
For this, you just need to fill the query parameter, which you can do with your script, rather than writing a custom Input Channel.

Using Slack RTM API with Django 2.0

I am a beginner to the Django framework and I am building a Django app that uses the Slack RTM API.
I have a coded a program in python that performs the OAuth authentication process like so :
def initialize():
url="https://slack.com/api/rtm.connect"
payload={"token":"xxx"}
r=requests.post(url,payload)
res=json.loads(r.text)
url1=res['url']
ws = create_connection(url1)
return ws
My Requirement:
The stream of events I receive (from my slack channel that my slack app is added to) is processed to filter out events of the type - message ,then match the message with a regex pattern and then store the matched string in a database.
As a stand alone python program I am receiving the stream of events from my channel.
My questions:
How do I successfully integrate this code to Django so that I can
fulfill my requirement?
Do I put the code in templates/views? What is the
recommended method to process this stream of data?

def initialize():
url = "https://slack.com/api/rtm.connect"
r = requests.get(url, params={'token': '<YOUR TOKEN>'})
res = r.json()
url1=res['url']
ws = create_connection(url1) #Note: There is no function called create_connnection() so it will raise an error
return ws
if you read the API web methods, you see :
Preferred HTTP method: GET
See here: Slack rtm.connect method
look at the comment, and thats the right code, see the differences between this code and yours.
basically to get JSON from a request don't use json.loads because this search your local computer not the request
use r.json() so it call the json you got from r.
Note that r.text will return raw text output so when you want to get url it will not be identified, with r.json you can call the object url as stated about
Hope this help.
and please could you tell us more what you wanna do with this in view ? because template is a directory which contains all the HTML files which you don't need to work with.
but why views.py ?

Searching users on LinkedIn using Python-LinkedIn

I am new to python programming. I am trying to access LinkedIn data using pyhton.
I have performed all the steps mentioned at https://ozgur.github.io/python-linkedin/
When I run the code to get profile, i get the desired result but if I try to code anything else (like search_profile() or get_group(41001)) I get the following error
LinkedInError: 400 Client Error: Bad Request for url:
The code that have written is below:
API_KEY = "xyz"
API_SECRET = "abc"
RETURN_URL = "http://localhost:8080/testPrj/auth/linkedin"
Access_Token = "abcdef"
application = linkedin.LinkedInApplication(token=Access_Token)
application.get_profile() # No Error
application.get_group(41001) # Error
application.search_profile(selectors=[{'people':['first_name','last_name']}]) # Error
Can someone help me to understand what is this issue and how to solve it ?
Thanks !!!

What is a post_form_id? (using python urllib2)

I'm interested in writing a python script to log into Facebook and then request some data (mainly checking the inbox). There are few nice examples out there on how to do this. One interesting script i found over here and there is some nice example on stackoverflow itself.
Now i could just copy-paste some of the code i need and get to do what i want, but that wouldn't be a good way to learn. So i am trying to understand what i am actually coding and can't understand some elements of the script in the first example, namely: what is a post_form_id?
Here is the section of the code which refers to "post_form_id" (line 56-72):
# Initialize the cookies and get the post_form_data
print 'Initializing..'
res = browser.open('http://m.facebook.com/index.php')
mxt = re.search('name="post_form_id" value="(\w+)"', res.read())
pfi = mxt.group(1)
print 'Using PFI: %s' % pfi
res.close()
# Initialize the POST data
data = urllib.urlencode({
'lsd' : '',
'post_form_id' : pfi,
'charset_test' : urllib.unquote_plus('%E2%82%AC%2C%C2%B4%2C%E2%82%AC%2C%C2%B4%2C%E6%B0%B4%2C%D0%94%2C%D0%84'),
'email' : user,
'pass' : passw,
'login' : 'Login'
})
Would you be so kind to tell me what a post_form_id is? And accessorily: would you know what the lsd key/value stands for?
Thanks.

I don't understand why you are trying to "hack" this ...
There is an official api from facebook to read the mailbox of a user, and you need to ask the "read_mailbox" permission for this.
So I advice you to check my post here on how to use facebook and python/django together, and how to login to facebook from python.
And then I would recommend you to read the facebook doc about the messages/inbox.
Basically you need an access_token then you can do http://graph.facebook.com/me/inbox/?access_token=XXX
You can also ask for the "offline_access" permission so you'll need only to get an access token once and you will be able to use it "forever"
And the you can do http://graph.facebook.com/MESSAGE_ID?access_token=XXX to get the details about a particular message.
Or using the api I use in the other thread :
f = Facebook()
res = f.get_object("me/inbox")
...
Feel free to comment if you have any question about this ?