timlin0307 / My_Line_Bot_Assist

Develop my own assistant via Line Bot.

My_Line_Bot_Assist

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Requirements
• Create LINE Bot Channel
• Set Up Your Bot
• Install And Set Up Heroku
• PUSH Bot Programme to Heroku
• Combine Heroku to LINE Bot
• Basic Code

Introduction

Develop my own assistant via Line Bot. Update irregularly.

Neccesities

• An LINE account
• An Heroku account
• Python 3

Create LINE Bot Channel

• Login to LINE Developers Messaging API
• "Create New Provider" -> Give provider name -> "Comfirm" -> "Create"
• "Create Channel" -> Fill in the information of your bot -> "Comfirm" -> Agree Terms -> "Create"

Set Up Your Bot

• Go to LINE Developers -> Choose the Bot you'd created
• Check "Use webhook" -> "Edit" -> "Enable" -> "Update"
• "Disable" auto-reply and greeting messages (it depends on you)
• "Issue" a Channel Access Token and a Channel Secret, keep them

Install And Set Up Heroku

• Download and install The Heroku CLI (it has instructions)
• Login to Heroku
• Go to "New" -> "Create New App"
• Name the app -> "Create App"

PUSH Bot Programme to Heroku

• Open cmd on your computer (cd to the folder you put the programme)
• Login to your Heroku account

heroku login

• Initialize git

git config --global user.name {"NAME"}
git config --global user.email {E-MAIL}
git init

• Connect your folder to Heroku

heroku git:remote -a {HEROKU_APP_NAME}

• PUSH your programme (every PUSH need to do this)

git add .
git commit -m "Add code"
git push -f heroku master

Combine Heroku to LINE Bot

• Go to LINE Developers -> Choose the Bot you'd created
• Go to "Webhook URL" -> Input the URL below

{HEROKU_APP_NAME}.herokuapp.com/callback

Basic Code

• Check basic_LineBot.py above
• Check requirements.txt above for Heroku app, it has libraries needed for the code. If you want to import more libraries into your Bot, you can add them manually.
• Check runtime.txt above, it's the python edition used for your Bot code.