how-to-connect-talkjs-to-a-chatbot

This is an example project for TalkJS's tutorial on How to integrate a chatbot into your TalkJS chat with the OpenAI API.

The project uses TalkJS webhooks to listen for new message events from the TalkJS server, calls the OpenAI API to generate a message reply, and then adds the reply to the conversation with the TalkJS API.

Prerequisites

To run this tutorial, you will need:

• A TalkJS account
• An Open AI account and API key
• Node.js
• npm
• ngrok

How to run the tutorial

1. Clone or download the project.
2. Replace <APP_ID> and <TALKJS_SECRET_KEY> in index.html and server.js with the values found in your TalkJS dashboard.
3. Replace <OPENAI_SECRET_KEY> with your OpenAI API key
4. Enable the message.sent option in the Webhooks section of the TalkJS dashboard.
5. Start ngrok with ngrok http 3000.
6. Add the ngrok URL to Webhook URLs in the TalkJS dashboard.
7. Run npm install to install dependencies.
8. Run npm start to start the webhooks server.