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🤖 Chatbot-Bootstrap 🤖

What is it?

A Chatbot Bootsrap-Kit based on Meteor and MongoDB. <br /> We have seen a lot of bot platforms and frameworks right? But what about a fully customizable, transparent and open source chatbot platform? <br /> This is exactly what I intend with this project. It's a simple web-project which is pretty easy to get up and running. It currently offers API interfaces for API.ai and motion.ai. In addition it has a built in tracking view where you can see all recent conversations.

Try out my personal implementation here: http://adriankrebs.ch

bot conversation

What is it?
Getting started
Contributing

Getting started

Add NLP API-keys to the settings.json file
Customize your dialog with buttons, avatar or other styling
meteor --settings settings.json
go to localhost:3000 and start chatting :)

NLP Engines

To make a chatbot work you need to connect to a NLP engine. I highly recommend the usage of API.ai:

For very basic dialog structures you could even create your own .json file containing the conversation tree.

Input Templates

By default the text input is enabled. You can customize the input template according to your needs.

Type 'show buttons' to see how the button input template looks like.
Check for the api.ai intent name if you would like to display your buttons only for certain intents.

buttons

Tracking View

The built in tracking view offers a nice way to track all the conversations with the bot. just go to localhost:3000/tracking

tracking view

Deployment on heroku

To deploy your bot on heroku I suggest using the Meteor Buildpack Horse

Contributing

Please fork this repository and contribute back using pull requests.

Any contributions are welcomed and appreciated.

I hope this helps you in building your next chatbot.

Follow me here on Github or on Twitter @adrian_krebs to stay up-to-date about chatbots and their rapid evolving technologies like AI, machine learning and natural language processing.

License

MIT License (MIT).