Building Bots For Fun And (No) Profit - WPDSM

Lightning talk building bots with the WordPress REST API as a platform for content.

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1. Building Bots For Fun and (No) Profit Using WordPress As A Platform @abrudtkuhl
2. WordPress as a Platform or Service
3. WordPress WP Theme Facebook Slack Node.js WordPress REST API (+ extensions ) Twitter Request Response Traditional
4. Why Extend REST API • WP REST API has a predefined data structure and response that may not work for you • Custom Endpoints allow custom queries • Include more data like custom fields in query and response
5. Extending The API
6. Slack Slash Command
7. Slack Bot Node.js and WordPress REST API
8. Slack OAuth
9. ALL THE LINKS • heykramer.com/api
 API Definition, Auto Discovery • heykramer.com/wpcode
 WordPress Code • heykramer.com/botcode
 Node.js Code • heykramer.com/blog
 Blog post about building everything