Have you ever had an idea to ask a bot to perform a simple interaction? Then this article is for you. By Lee Ford. A Webhook is a way for two applications that can communicate with each other. In our case, a simple bot and Teams.
Source: https://pnp.github.io/blog/post/make-a-bot-for-simple-interactions-in-teams-using-a-webhook/
The article then describes:
- Bot interaction idea
- Solution based on Webhook in Teams and Bot
- What is webhook
- OpenWeatherMap API
- Setup
- Bot
- Teams Webhook
The bot is where the magic happens. It is code hosted externally to Teams that can be called over HTTP (via the Webhook). What that code does, where it is hosted, is all up to you. For this scenario, there is an (written in TypeScript), which can be found here: Azure Function HTTP Trigger. Nice one!
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