Botkit
| Project Name | Stars | Downloads | Repos Using This | Packages Using This | Most Recent Commit | Total Releases | Latest Release | Open Issues | License | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Botkit | 11,137 | | 1,920 | 152 | 5 months ago | 85 | March 23, 2022 | 42 | mit | TypeScript |
| Botkit is an open source developer tool for building chat bots, apps and custom integrations for major messaging platforms. | ||||||||||
| Franz | 4,422 |  | 2 | 4 | 21 days ago | 16 | June 07, 2019 | 388 | apache-2.0 | JavaScript |
| Franz is a free messaging app for services like WhatsApp, Slack, Messenger and many more. | ||||||||||
| Bottender | 4,116 |  | 38 | 23 | 8 months ago | 215 | November 10, 2021 | 72 | mit | TypeScript |
| ⚡️ A framework for building conversational user interfaces. | ||||||||||
| Notify | 2,508 | 17 | a day ago | 64 | June 21, 2023 | 29 | mit | Go | ||
| A dead simple Go library for sending notifications to various messaging services. | ||||||||||
| Messaging Apis | 1,871 |  | 49 | 22 | 10 months ago | 37 | January 11, 2021 | 11 | mit | TypeScript |
| Messaging APIs for multi-platform | ||||||||||
| Relatedchat | 1,577 | a month ago | 1 | Swift | ||||||
| Open source alternative communication platform | ||||||||||
| Slack Ruby Client | 1,156 |  | 733 | 83 | 21 days ago | 47 | March 17, 2023 | 79 | mit | Ruby |
| A Ruby and command-line client for the Slack Web, Real Time Messaging and Event APIs. | ||||||||||
| Securitybot | 975 | 5 years ago | 1 | February 28, 2017 | 14 | apache-2.0 | Python | |||
| Distributed alerting for the masses! | ||||||||||
| Integrations | 725 |  | 4 | 28 | 6 years ago | 7 | July 01, 2017 | 30 | agpl-3.0 | JavaScript |
| Connect your App to Multiple Messaging Channels with the W3C Open standard. | ||||||||||
| Pingme | 680 | 1 | 6 days ago | 22 | July 18, 2022 | 1 | mit | Go | ||
| PingMe is a CLI which provides the ability to send messages or alerts to multiple messaging platforms & email. | ||||||||||
Botkit is an open source developer tool for building chat bots, apps and custom integrations for major messaging platforms.
This repository contains the core Botkit library, as well as a series of plugins and extensions for connecting Botkit to messaging and chat platforms and other tools in the bot building ecosystem.
Botkit is part of the Microsoft Bot Framework and is released under the MIT Open Source license
Use Botkit
Packages included in this repo
| Package | Description | NPM Status |
|---|---|---|
| botkit | Botkit Core library |  |
| botbuilder-adapter-web | A platform adapter for the web |  |
| botbuilder-adapter-slack | A platform adapter for Slack |  |
| botbuilder-adapter-webex | A platform adapter for Webex Teams |  |
| botbuilder-adapter-hangouts | A platform adapter for Google |  |
| botbuilder-adapter-twilio-sms | A platform adapter for Twilio SMS |  |
| botbuilder-adapter-facebook | A platform adapter for Facebook Messenger |  |
| generator-botkit | A Yeoman generator for creating a new Botkit project |  |
| botkit-plugin-cms | A plugin that adds support for Botkit CMS |  |
Build Botkit locally
This repo contains multiple inter-linked packages containing Botkit Core, platform adapter packages, and some additional plugins and extensions. To build these locally, follow the instructions below.
Install lerna and TypeScript globally:
npm install -g typescript
npm install -g lerna
Clone the entire Botkit project from Github.
git clone [email protected]:howdyai/botkit.git
Enter the new folder and install the dependent packages:
cd botkit
npm install
Use lerna to set up the local packages:
lerna bootstrap --hoist
Now, build all of the libraries:
lerna run build
To build updated versions of the class reference documents found in packages/docs, run:
lerna run build-docs
