Custom responses — Google Home

Question

I have a a web server up that listens on a particular URL and returns a unique response based upon a bunch of criteria.

For example (fake domain):

myserver.com/cgi-bin/nextslot

returns

Hello, the next slot is at 2:00pm

The response can be JSON or html or whatever.

What I want to do is hook this up to Google Home so that I can ask google when is the next slot and it calls my web server and reads out the response.

Is there a way to do that?

Answer 1

This should be possible by writing what is known as a Google Assistant Action.

There are some tools to make writing actions a little easier such as wit.ai or the others mentioned in some of the answers here