Sometimes users don't know how to interact with your chatbot. Learn how to get your API.AI chatbot to talk first so they know what to do next.

1. Getting your API.AI
chatbot to initiate the
conversation

2. You want to add an
API.AI chatbot to
your WordPress site

3. The built-in web
integration
In theory you
could just use the
built-in web demo
integration

4. Limitations
But the built-in web
integration has many
limitations…

5. Initiating the
conversation
… including the limitation that it cannot initiate the
conversation
While API.AI
provides a way to
trigger an intent
without user
input, it can only
be done using the
REST API
Which means you
cannot use the
web demo
integration for
this purpose

6. So how to do it?

7. Add an Event
to your Intent
The first step is to add
an Event to the API.AI
Intent you wish to
trigger.
In this example we add
the Event WELCOME to
the Default Welcome
Intent

8. Next, get the Client Access
Token of your chatbot

9. Make an API request
Here you see an example of how to do
it using cURL

10. Using PHP
For an example of how to do it in PHP, check out
the following tutorial on Mining Business Data
http://miningbusinessdata.com/initiate-
conversation-api-ai-php-code-sample/