{"id":29633,"date":"2017-04-04T21:01:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T13:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=29633"},"modified":"2022-07-22T19:49:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T11:49:26","slug":"create-auto-response-bot-bottr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/create-auto-response-bot-bottr\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Your Own Auto-Response Bot with Bottr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us remember the Microsoft Tay incident<\/a><\/strong> where Internet users taught an AI bot some pretty crazy words<\/strong> in just a few days. It\u2019s a funny example of bots on the web, but you can make your own Twitter or FB messaging bot without the AI stuff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Bottr<\/a><\/strong> is a free open source library for creating bots from scratch<\/strong>. It labels itself \u201cthe world\u2019s simplest bot framework\u201d<\/strong> and I have to agree.<\/p>\n

Read Also:<\/strong> 10 Tools to Build your Own Chatbots<\/a><\/p>\n

The whole stack runs on JavaScript<\/strong>, so you can build a custom bot using frontend ECMAScript<\/a><\/strong> on top of Express.js<\/strong> and Node.js<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Bottr is not a complete AI framework<\/strong>. It can accept AI concepts<\/strong> but it won\u2019t have deep learning<\/strong> out of the box. Instead, you can program events<\/a><\/strong> where Bottr can respond or pass information to API.ai<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The most practical usage would be internal team collaborations<\/strong> or idea sharing with Facebook Messenger<\/strong>. But probably the most fun project is creating a Twitter bot<\/a><\/strong> that automates responses, retweets, or just listens for tweets containing certain keywords or hashtags.<\/p>\n

Botting is not a new technology but it certainly hasn\u2019t been around for that long. Bottr is the best of its kind with a complete open source library<\/strong> on GitHub<\/a>, ready for use. And you can find dozens of live bot examples<\/strong> like @DearAssistant<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n

\"dearasst<\/a><\/figure>\n

You can also find plenty of examples<\/strong> in this repo<\/a> but for some reason, the live versions have been taken offline<\/strong>. I\u2019m guessing they were eating up server resources and couldn\u2019t be hosted for free.<\/p>\n

If you wanna dive into Bottr then browse through the installation guide<\/a><\/strong> to set up your service<\/strong> and build your features<\/strong>. If you\u2019re having trouble or want some help with bugs\/errors you can look through the issues tab<\/a><\/strong> on GitHub.<\/p>\n

Read Also:<\/strong> 8 Ways Twitter Bots Are Actually Helping Us<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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