For this tutorial we will be building a messenger bot using Python, more specifically the Flask framework. This is the third post in our bot series, The previous one’s being Making a Telegram Bot Making a Slack Bot Requirements for this tutorial 1. Python 2. Facebook Page 3. Flask To install Flask, follow the instructions here. Creating Webhooks Picture Credits: Mailchimp A webhook is an URL to which a ping is sent if any activity occurs in the host server. …
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There’s a very common misconception that hackathons are only for hackers. I remember the first time I told my hostel warden that I’ll need a pass to attend a hackathon, his first words were- Can you hack facebook? A hackathon is a place for people to come compete and build products- usually on a given theme within 24 hours or more. Usually hackathons are attended by professionals or 3rd -4th year students. But here are a few reasons why you …
Slack For those of you who don’t know what slack is- Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It’s real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams. Things to know API API’s – Application programming interface is kind of like a pact between the provider and the reciever, wherein you can request data from the host server using the API and the API key. For example you can request google maps to send you the map location of …
The second course i took at DataCamp was Intro to Python for Data Science. As you might know by now, the purpose of this website is to train you in data science. I recommend you to learn python first from- ThinkPython before taking up this course. Doing so will allow you to complete this course in under 30-40 mins. Anyways, the course in itself is sufficient for begineers. It takes you through the various data structures, fucntions and packages and …
Henceforth I will be using the bluescreen blog to document the things I do and experiment with. One of the recent things that got me interested is datacamp. What is datacamp? Datacamp is a platform to learn Python, R and Data Science. The good thing about datacamp is that it provides most of the courses for free. Apart from that it also provides a certificate at the end of the course completion. Course The first course I started at datacamp …
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