Dialogflow API: Node.js Client

IMPORTANT NOTE

Version 2.0.0 renames dialogflow to @google-cloud/dialogflow on npm, along with introducing TypeScript types.

Dialogflow API client for Node.js

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

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.
2. Enable billing for your project.
3. Enable the Dialogflow 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 dialogflow

Using the client library

const dialogflow = require('dialogflow');
const uuid = require('uuid');

/**
 * Send a query to the dialogflow agent, and return the query result.
 * @param {string} projectId The project to be used
 */
async function runSample(projectId = 'your-project-id') {
  // A unique identifier for the given session
  const sessionId = uuid.v4();

  // Create a new session
  const sessionClient = new dialogflow.SessionsClient();
  const sessionPath = sessionClient.sessionPath(projectId, sessionId);

  // The text query request.
  const request = {
    session: sessionPath,
    queryInput: {
      text: {
        // The query to send to the dialogflow agent
        text: 'hello',
        // The language used by the client (en-US)
        languageCode: 'en-US',
      },
    },
  };

  // Send request and log result
  const responses = await sessionClient.detectIntent(request);
  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.`);
  }
}

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

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be General Availability (GA). This means it is stable; the code surface will not change in backwards-incompatible ways unless absolutely necessary (e.g. because of critical security issues) or with an extensive deprecation period. Issues and requests against GA libraries are addressed with the highest priority.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE