ConU_NewsBot

Inspiration

We wanted to make an automated system, and we found the IBM Watson API to be very interesting.

What it does

It is a newsbot that tweets out news but was also supposed to be a chatbot through Twitter direct messages and IBM Watson Conversation, however that part is not functioning unfortunately.

How we built it

We used C# as our language, and the IBM Watson, News, and Twitter APIs.

Challenges we ran into

Trying to get reading direct messages, along with the Conversation API, to work with C#.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Experimenting with many APIs at once in a short amount of time really opened our eyes.

What we learned

That C# is not a great tool for this sort of application. Despite being a great language, it lacks some capability with interacting with third-party web services in a simplistic manner