MacAssistant
A project to integrate the Google Assistant into macOS using the Google Assistant SDK
"Google Assistant is now on over 100 million devices" - Sundar Pichai
MacAssistant brings that number to 200 million
Download
Downloads are listed under the Releases tab.
Click here to directly download the latest version.
This project is currently in Beta
Example Queries
"What time is it"
"Who is the president", "How old is he", "Does he have any children"
as well as anything else you can normally ask Google Assistant
Builid Instructions
MacAssistant is built using Swift 3.1 and Xcode 8
Dependencies are managed using Carthage. After you clone the project, run carthage update --platform macOS. (If you don't have Carthage, refer here for installation instructions)
You will also need to obtain OAuth credentials from Google. Go to Google Developer Console and create a new project. Then, enable the Google Assistant API. Finally generate new OAuth credentials (select device type Other). Download the json file by clicking the button on the right. Finally, rename the file to google_oauth.json and place it in your project.
Contributing
Please feel free to contribute to this project. I welcome all contributions and pull requests. There is a list of pending things that need to be worked on in the TODO.md file.
License
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2017 Vansh Gandhi
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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