Dialogflow: Node.js Client

Node.js idiomatic client for Dialogflow.

Dialogflow is an enterprise-grade NLU platform that makes it easy for developers to design and integrate conversational user interfaces into mobile apps, web applications, devices, and bots.

• Dialogflow Node.js Client API Reference
• github.com/dialogflow/dialogflow-nodejs-client-v2
• Dialogflow Documentation

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google APIs Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.

Table of contents:

• Quickstart
  • Before you begin
  • Installing the client library
  • Using the client library
• Samples
• Versioning
• Contributing
• License

Quickstart

Before you begin

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

   Go to the projects page

2. Enable billing for your project.

   Enable billing

3. Enable the Dialogflow API.

   Enable the API

4. Set up authentication with a service account so you can access the API from your local workstation.

Installing the client library

npm install --save dialogflow

Using the client library

// You can find your project ID in your Dialogflow agent settings
const projectId = 'ENTER_PROJECT_ID_HERE'; //https://dialogflow.com/docs/agents#settings
const sessionId = 'quickstart-session-id';
const query = 'hello';
const languageCode = 'en-US';
 
// Instantiate a DialogFlow client.
const dialogflow = require('dialogflow');
const sessionClient = new dialogflow.SessionsClient();
 
// Define session path
const sessionPath = sessionClient.sessionPath(projectId, sessionId);
 
// The text query request.
const request = {
  session: sessionPath,
  queryInput: {
    text: {
      text: query,
      languageCode: languageCode,
    },
  },
};
 
// Send request and log result
sessionClient
  .detectIntent(request)
  .then(responses => {
    console.log('Detected intent');
    const result = responses[0].queryResult;
    console.log(`  Query: ${result.queryText}`);
    console.log(`  Response: ${result.fulfillmentText}`);
    if (result.intent) {
      console.log(`  Intent: ${result.intent.displayName}`);
    } else {
      console.log(`  No intent matched.`);
    }
  })
  .catch(err => {
    console.error('ERROR:', err);
  });

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory. The samples' README.md has instructions for running the samples.

Sample	Source Code	Try it
Detect Intent (Text)	source code
Create Knowledge Base	source code
Get Knowledge Base	source code
list Knowledge Base	source code
list Knowledge Base	source code
create Document	source code
list Documents	source code
Get Document	source code
delete Document	source code
detect Intent with sentiment analysis	source code
detect Intent with text-to-speech response	source code
detect Intent with Knowledge Base	source code
Detect Intent (Audio)	source code
Detect Intent (Streaming)	source code
Create Entity	source code
Delete Entity	source code
Create Intent	source code
Delete Intent	source code
Create Context	source code
Delete Context	source code
Create Session Entity Type	source code
Delete Session Entity Type	source code

The Dialogflow Node.js Client API Reference documentation also contains samples.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be in beta. This means it is expected to be mostly stable while we work toward a general availability release; however, complete stability is not guaranteed. We will address issues and requests against beta libraries with a high priority.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE