How can i send api requests and get the answers using boto3?

Question

I have my bot already built on Lex.

I'm trying to interact with it on python, to send a request (sentence) and parse the answer.

For that purpose, I spent some time now reading and rereading these docs: https://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/lex-runtime.html#LexRuntimeService.Client.generate_presigned_url

But I can't seem to understand how to send these requests and which function will actually give me the answer from the bot.

Answer 1

did you try post_text() method?

import boto3 
client = boto3.client('lex-runtime')
response = client.post_text(
    botName='string',
    botAlias='string',
    userId='string',
    sessionAttributes={
        'string': 'string'
    },
    requestAttributes={
        'string': 'string'
    },
    inputText='string'
) 

this function will give you the answer from the bot and it will be stored in response variable.
write the code in Lambda function and give permission to access Lex.

hope it helps.