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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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Botkit Slack app - May I know how can I send a DM to user who installs slack app?

I am using botkit to develop slack app. I would like to know how can I send Direct Message to user who installs Slack App to their team.
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Chatbot with large DB integration

We want to build a Bot, which will ask questions to user and then will record their response. This Q&A will be intelligently done based upon responses from user. We have few initial questions at this moment; There has been lots of API's available…
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How do I get the user message that a Slack Botkit hears?

Using Botkit, how can I get the message from the user that triggered what a Botkit hears? For example, a user says "Hello, how are you" and the bot hears "hello" as the keyword. I do I get the entire "Hello, how are you"?
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FIREBASE WARNING: Exception was thrown by user callback; cb is not a function

I am trying to integrate Firebase into Botkit using botkit-storage-firebase, but I am getting this warning on initialization: FIREBASE WARNING: Exception was thrown by user callback. TypeError: cb is not a function at success…
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How to use botkit with facebook and wit.ai

I am a novice in chatbot development and I would like some help. While it seems quite simple to connect botkit with facebook messenger and wit.ai in orger to use NLP. I haven't managed to do so. My initial goal is to have a simple conversation like…
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slack bot error: 'user_is_bot' for channels.join

I am trying to create a new channel using slack api https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.join but getting this response info: ** API CALL: https://slack.com/api/channels.join Response : { ok: false, error: 'user_is_bot' } I tried…
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How to fix the "npm install error" when installing "Botkit"?

I am a newbie machine learning programmer trying get how to install the botkit tool for creating AI messaging bots from the bot kit studio. Botkit was installed but the following errors are shown in my terminal: Rakeshs-MacBook-Air:~ niharika$…
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Javascript parameter getting passed as undefined

I'm currently using botkit-sms to send and receive texts, integrated with mongoose for storing my data. I want to get a user based on their phone number, so in my code I use a controller that is supposed to find the user by their phone number in the…
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Is there a way to wake up the application when a user sends a message and it's idle on heroku?

I'm have a bot running on heroku within a free tier, and I'm looking for a way to wake the application when a message is received from the user in Slack. I have a web worker in my Procfile: web: npm start I also setup a webserver and botkit: var…
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file upload event trigger slack - botkit

I have installed botkit on ubuntu. I have tested some examples sending/ receiving messages. It is working fine. I have tried to trigger a file upload event trigger on slack, I have received message/ file upload trigger event in botkit and I have…
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Issues in Integration of Slackbot with wit.ai

I have referred to the beepbophq tutorials. In that they show ed how to integrate slackbot with wit.ai to make it more intellegent.The problem I am facing lies in the code of js file.The line wit.hears() is giving me an error that 'hears' method is…
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How to get raw message text (e.g. email address) in Botkit message handler

In botkit I setup message_received or any other handler. When I receive message its text property should contain actual message written by user. Unfortunately when this message contains e.g. email address I get this message slack-formatted.…
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Facebook Messenger Bot: Detect When Video Attachment Playback?

Is it possible to detect when a user has completed playing a video attachment within Facebook Messenger using the Messenger Platform API? How about when a user has started playing the video attachment? Or how much time they spent watching the video…
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Facebook Page Messenger not working with Webhook API

I followed the steps to setup the Facebook Messenger platform. I have successfully setup the webhook, I receive messages on my webhook. For webhooks to work, I obviously had to subscribe my page, see the screenshot. Now the strange problem is, if I…
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Authenticate firebase with botkit-storage-firebase module

I'm using botkit and I'm trying to get storage working through firebase. I'm using the botkit-storage-firebase module: https://github.com/howdyai/botkit-storage-firebase However when I try to save anything (or get anything), I'm getting Permission…
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