Create the weather skill

Last Updated: 25.10.2019

Create weather skill to get the information about the weather in the Hala chat. In this tutorial we are using the service to get the information about the current weather.

Step 1. Go to the and sign up for a free account

Step 2. After the registration, go to the and copy the API Access Key that was generated for your account and also Base URL

Step 3. Go to the Integration section on the and add the new integration

and select REST API integration:

Past the values that you have copied step 2. Save your results.

Step 9. Now you need to provide examples of how the end-users can write about the getting the weather forecast. You need to provide at least five examples.

Step 10. Save your changes and train model

It is very important that you need to Save the changes and then Train Model. It will take up to 20 seconds to train the machine learning models.

Save your changes and train model

Step 13. Provide the name of the skill, description, and tags (last two is optional). Press next for creating the dialog flow.

Step 14. You will be promoted to the interface for creation dialog flow. Create the first root node by pressing the button Add new

Step 15. Open the created dialog node and fill it.

Field Name - you can enter any value, for example "User asks for a weather forecast"
Conditions - here you need to specify created intent intent.get_weather

Actions - skip this section
Context - skip this section
Output - here we need to ask the user for which city we need to provide the weather forecast

Step 16. Now you need to create a child node to recognize the input from the user about the city.

Step 17. Open the child node and fill it.

Field Name - you can enter any value, for example "Form Success"
Conditions - here you need to specify the entity entity.city

Actions - When we got the information about the city, we can send the API request to the weather service. We need to add the Action that we have created previously.

When you add the action, you would need to specify the context variable where the response from the weather service will be stored, for example, context.weatherResponse

Context - Here we need to save the City name into the context variable that will be sent to the weather service.

Output - In output you can write something like this "Please wait, I am checking the information."

Step 18. Create a new child node to process the API response from the weather service.

Open the created node and fill it:

Field Name - you can enter any value, for example "Provide the results"
Conditions - Specify the context variable that was created for the Action Response on previous steps: context.weatherResponse

Actions - skip this section
Context - skip this section
Output - In the Output, we would need to provide information about the weather. To access the data from the API response, you would need to use the next prefix context.weatherResponse. and then specify the path to the required data. All API providers have information about using their API. You could read this information to create the correct path to the data extracting.

You can use the next text:

Weather forecast for {{context.weatherResponse.request.query}}

Local time: {{context.weatherResponse.location.localtime}}

Temprature: {{context.weatherResponse.current.temperature}}

Wind speed: {{context.weatherResponse.current.wind_speed}}