Deploy from CLI

API key generation

Before deploying your bot from the CLI, you need to generate an API key in the dashboard. To do that, you need to:

1. Navigate to the Textbase dashboard.
2. Sign in using your google account.
3. Generate an API key by clicking on Generate in the bottom left section.

Deployment

After this, you can execute the textbase-client deploy command to deploy your bot from a terminal.

After executing it, it will ask for:

1. Path to the zip folder
2. Bot name (IMPORTANT: can only contain lowercase alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores)
3. Textbase API key

If you want to run this command in one shot, you can make use of flags:

textbase-client deploy --path=<path_to_zip_folder> --bot-name=<name_of_your_bot> --api_key=<api_key>

If this command executes successfully, it will return a table with Status, Bot ID and URL and you can click on that URL to view your bot!