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Rasa Slack Integration

post by JiteshGaikwad on Apr 16, 2020

JiteshGaikwad
Rasa Certified Developer

Hello Community,
I have created a video tutorial on the integration of Rasa bot over Slack, Check it out.

Integrating RASA Chatbot with Slack Channel

Check out the Restaurant Bot demo integrated with Slack:

Restaurant Bot Demo over Slack

Note: While developing this bot, I had used Rasa v.1.9.7 and there was some issue with the slack connector of Rasa, I have found a temporary fix, I have mentioned this in the issue.

I hope this helps .

post by cck197 on Apr 22, 2020

cck197
Christopher Kelly
Super helpful, should be linked from the docs.
Now how do I make my buttons work??

post by cck197 on Apr 22, 2020

cck197
Christopher Kelly
Three hours later, I still can’t make the buttons work! You hint at the end of the video. Can I see your domain.yml file? My buttons work fine in the rasa shell but not with Slack. When I click on the button, I get the following exception thrown in the console running

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/cck197/rasa/venv2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sanic/request.py", line 173, in load_json
    self.parsed_json = loads(self.body)
ValueError: Expected object or value

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/cck197/rasa/venv2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sanic/app.py", line 976, in handle_request
    response = await response
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/coroutines.py", line 110, in __next__
    return self.gen.send(None)
  File "/home/cck197/rasa/venv2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/channels/slack.py", line 356, in webhook
    metadata = self.get_metadata(request)
  File "/home/cck197/rasa/venv2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/core/channels/slack.py", line 329, in get_metadata
    slack_event = request.json
  File "/home/cck197/rasa/venv2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sanic/request.py", line 167, in json
    self.load_json()
  File "/home/cck197/rasa/venv2/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sanic/request.py", line 176, in load_json
    if not self.body:
sanic.exceptions.InvalidUsage: Failed when parsing body as json

My buttons look like this:

utter_ask_permission:
    -
        text: "How would you feel if I asked you some questions?"
        buttons:
          -
            payload: /startc
            title: "Go on"

• Slack integration error with interactive components

post by JiteshGaikwad on Apr 23, 2020

JiteshGaikwad Rasa Certified Developer

hey @cck197, I have updated the slack connector so that it will parse the button click response from the slack successfully. I will show it in the other part of the video. Sorry as of now I can’t share slack connector file as there are some changes needs to be done, but I will share it soon

post by arneverster on Jun 4, 2020

arneverster Any updates on the button stuff?

post by tim.blackbird on May 16, 2021

tim.blackbird
Tim Johnson
Any plans on getting these Videos back up on YT? Maybe they are out of date, which is understood