External_Services

Overview

External services are those services which can be called from the sraix tag. How to use the tag is described in SRAIX Tag. The sraix tag was originally designed to only called other bots but I felt that this was a short-sighted limitation as the interface is about making a REST API call to an appropriate end point. Therefore with a little refactoring and better documentation you can use the sraix tag to call any external service exposed as a REST GET or POST endpoint.

** Please note that Services in 5.0 have been completely rewritten. Documentation is underway, but for now I would look at the code for services to understand how each works and how to build your own **

Available External Services

The list of available endpoints that have been implemented and tested with Program-Y are currently

• Met Office
• Wikipedia
• Accu Weather
• Cocktail DB
• Dark Sky
• Duck Duck Go
• Generic
• Geo Names
• Get Guidelines
• GNews
• Good Reads
• Google Distance
• Google Directions
• Google Geo Code
• Microsoft News
• Microsoft Search
• News API
• OMDB
• Pandora
• Wolfram Alpha
• World Trading Data
• Yelp
• UK National Railway Enquiries