WeChatBot

WeChatBot is a customized chat bot built on Python that acts as a WeChat personal assistant for Qiaoling

Demo

Introduction

As for now, she is able to

• ask for weather
• ask for news by topic from BBC and CNN
• ask for bus arrival time
• ask for news headlines
• ask for jobs
• ask for platts news

Dependencies

• Python 3.6
• wxpy
• reportlab
• selenium
• Open Weather Map
• News API
• LTA DataMall
• URL Shortener API
• And of course you will need to have a WeChat account to play with

Installation & Setup

• Clone the repo (and give it a star if you like it~)
• Apply API keys from LTA DataMall, Open Weather Map, News API, URL shortener API
• Sign up a jobstreet.com account
• Key in your credentials to config file
• Configure the user you want to respond to in the config file
• Run main.py script
• Scan the QR Code with your robot WeChat account

Example

Currently the robot is able to do the following:

• returning weather condition when asked by '天气'
• returning headline news from CNN and BBC when asked by '头条'
• returning news about specific topics from CNN and BBC when asked by '新闻 topic1, topic2, .. ,topicX'
• returning bus arrival time at speicfic bus stop when asked by '巴士 bus_stop_number, bus1.bus2.bus3 .. .busX'
• returning 53, 45 and 53M bus arrival time at 63291 (for QL) when asked by '坐巴士'
• returning bus arrival time at 55039 (at back door of NCS) when asked by '巴士ncs'
• returning jobs from jobstreet.com and send email when asked by '工作 job1, job2, .. , jobX ^[email protected]'
• returning news from Platts when asked by 'platts'

License

The software is under MIT License

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