Chatfuel Time API

An api for chatfuel bots that returns the current time as variables for a given timezone

Setting up the API Server

Use the Github CLI to clone this repository.

gh repo clone eric-mathison/chatfuel-time-api

Install dependencies

npm install

Next, you'll need to build it

npm run prepublish

Finally, start the server

npm start

Using the API

Make a GET request.

/chatfuel/?ctTimezone=America/Chicago

The {timezone} needs to be in IANA Timezone Name format which can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones

The request will return parsed date formats that are usable in the chatbot.

Chatfuel

In Chatfuel, attributes will automatically be added to your bot.

• ctFullDate - returns a full date (Jan 25, 2020)
• ctMonth - returns month number (1 - 12)
• ctDay - returns day number (1 - 31)
• ctYear - returns full year (2020)
• ctHour - returns hour number in 24hour format (0 - 23)
• ctMinute - returns minute number (00 - 59)
• ctWeekDay - returns week day number (0 - 6)

For ctWeekDay, 0 is for Sunday and 6 is for Saturday.