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Botkit is a toolkit for making bot applications. Botkit is designed to ease the process of designing and running useful, creative bots that live inside Slack, Facebook Messenger and other messaging platforms.

It provides a semantic interface to sending and receiving messages so that developers can focus on creating novel applications and experiences instead of dealing with API endpoints.

Botkit features a comprehensive set of tools to deal with popular messaging platforms, including:

  • Slack
  • Facebook Messenger
  • Twilio IP Messaging

GitHub project: https://github.com/howdyai/botkit

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watson-developer-cloud botkit-middleware Resource not found

I am new to the bot world. I am trying to integrate a Conversation service create on IBM Watson with a Slack Bot using the botkit middleware. I have simply obtained the code from Git (Botkit Slack Integration and am trying to use that to answer…
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Messenger bot using Botkit on AWS: "bodyParser is not defined" error

I set up a Bitnami Node.JS instance on AWS. Installed default Botkit. Updated dependencies. Set up a basic Facebook page/app with Messenger integration. Attempted to run the default Messenger bot example (Facebook_bot.js). Running the bot gets the…
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Botkit Slack Bot not listening to new js files (hosted on azure)

We hosted a botkit bot on azure, following their guidelines and cloning in the repo from here: https://github.com/howdyai/botkit-starter-slack Then, I tried adding a new js file to the skills folder that looks like: var Botkit =…
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API.AI middleware with Botkit Facebook no response

I'm trying to add API.AI middleware to my Botkit on Facebook Messenger. However, it doesn't return anything from API.AI. Anyone had success implementing API.AI with…
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Do the task in order in node js

i want to do these tasks in order but the results is not in order it's like 2 3 10 9 1 4 6 5 7 8 The API is from the NodeJS toolkit telegraf bot.hears('numbers', (ctx) => { ctx.reply("1") ctx.reply("2") ctx.reply("3") ctx.reply("4") …
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Botkit with Watson and Facebook - Why open tunnel? Couldn't be launched in Bluemix?

I was trying to implement the Watson Conversation Service, using Botkit for Facebook. All the papers, including this https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/botkit-middleware/tree/master/examples/multi-bot indicates to stablish a tunnel on my…
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BotKit Slack Bot to Microsoft Teams Bot

I recently built a slack bot via the BotKit toolkit and now want to be able to expand from just slack to many other services. Basically, I was reading https://venturebeat.com/2016/11/02/how-bots-will-work-on-microsoft-teams/ and it states that…
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Can HowdyAI's Botkit listen for attachment contents?

Attempting to use BotKit to have a custom integration react to a 3rd party integration. The 3rd party integration only communicates via replies as attachments. Is there a way to have the my custom integration 'hear' attachments? I haven't been…
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error: Error: Stale RTM connection, closing RTM; rtm_close event not triggered

I have created a basic bot and left it connected. After some time, it gave the error Stale RTM connection, closing RTM. The rtm_close event was not fired and the process is still running then why did the bot stop listening. How to deal with such…
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Botkit is not sending Generic Template (Attachments) facebook messenger

I am trying to reply to the user with this message: bot.reply(message, { "attachment": { "type": "template", "payload": { …
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Slack/Botkit: How to make bot in slack listen better?

I'm having issues with creating a way where the bot correctly listens within a slack channel without replying to everything being said in the channel. So, here is the way I currently approached this: controller.hears(['You\'re awesome','Help',"What…
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send the web page from a botkit bot to messenger webview

I have a mysql database and would like the user to provide information concerning his product(name, description,price) at once without asking by chatting. While reading I found it could be possible to show a user a form using messenger webview but I…
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the persistent menu of facebook messenger bot is not being update with the last changes

I am using botkit to build my bot. The first time I validated my webhook the persistent menu that was there was the one which came as example : controller.api.thread_settings.menu([ { "type":"postback", …
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merging two objects in nodejs using botkit

Hi guys i have a problem merging two objects any idea how can i do this ? controller.hears('offres','message_received, facebook_postback',function(bot,message){ connection.connect("mongodb://localhost/bot",function(err,db){ var z =""; var…
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npm install is not working on botkit starter facebook project

I would like to develop a chatbot and then chose botkit as the tool to use. Following the steps to install it as described here,I first cloned the repository to my local disk D: this worked but the second step command (for Installing dependencies,…
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