In the first quarter of 2016, approximately 50% of OpenTable’s global seated diners originated on a mobile device. Voice definetely feels like next frontier of the human interactivity with machines.
Hate typing in the keywords to make a dinner reservation?? Well, here is an alexa hack to make a restaurant reservation using OpenTable. This nodejs app uses unofficial openTableAPI http://opentable.herokuapp.com/ to get the reservation URL of a restaurant. Unfortunately, OpenTable doesnt expose an api end-point to make an actual reservation so we have built a workaround to make reservation using horseman npm module.
#npm-modules: the app use following npm modules: restler : to make an http call to opentableAPI horseman : to open the reservation url in a headless browser and make a reservation.
#end-point: /findReservation can be invoked with following 2 url params: name : name of the restaurant where you would like to make a reservation makeActualReservation : a boolean to specify if you want the app to make an actual reservation. Please be cognizant of impact of making an actual reservation using this app and use it judiciously if you dont intend to use the reservation.
Please note that for the purposes of demo, a fake user profile is used to make an actual reservation.