README.md

Awesome Chatbots 🤖

A curated list of awesome Chatbot services and resources.

Contents

• Open Source Projects
• Services
  • Chatbot design
  • Chatbot builder
  • Messaging services
• Example projects
• Chatbot Platforms and Channels
• Personal Assistants
• Chatbots
• Resources
  • Tutorials
• Contributing

Open Source Projects

• spaCy - Python library for advanced natural language processing.
• Botkit - Open Source bot building blocks for Slack, Facebook Messenger, Twilio, Microsoft with Botkit Studio - a hosted development environment
• Claudia Bot Builder - Open Source library to create chat bots for FB, Slack, Skype and Telegram and deploy to AWS Lambda
• AIVA -General-purpose virtual assistant for developers.
• Bottr - Open Source bot framework (nodejs).
• RedBot - A Node-RED plugin to create multi-platform bots visually (nodejs).
• Botman - an open-source framework in PHP
• BotPress - Botpress is an on-prem, open-source bot building platform for businesses
• Bottender - an open-source chatbot framework in NodeJS
• Rasa Talk - GUI supported open-source chatbot framework built over Rasa.

Services

Chatbot design

• Botsociety - Design and preview your chabot before actually building it.

Chatbot builder

• Botfront - An open source platform to visually and intuitively build chatbots with Rasa.
• BotStar - Design and Develop Chatbots for Messenger & Website. Visually.
• Flow XO - Bot + human messaging platform
• Gupshup - Comprehensive Platform to build Bots and use messaging Services
• Pandorabots - Web service for building and deploying chatbots
• DialogFlow - Conversational User Experience platform
• reply.ai - Platform to build & manage conversation chatbots
• Chatfuel - Build a Facebook bot without coding
• m.io - Enterprise bots for Slack, HipChat and Skype
• TuringRobot - Platform for AI robots and AI robot OS

Messaging services

• msg.ai - AI for Conversational Commerce
• wit.ai - Natural Language for Developers
• Google NLP - Cloud Natural Language API (up to 5K free analyses/month)

Analytics

• Dashbot - Bot Analytics
• ChatBase - Analyze and optimize bots more easily

Payments & Subscriptions

• Paypal
• Stripe
• Braintree

Example projects

• Facebook Messenger DevKit - Node.js setup for rapid development for Facebook Messenger Platform

Chatbot Platforms and Channels

• Facebook messenger
• Wechat
• Slack
• Telegram
• Microsoft Bot Framework
• SMS - Short Messaging System, e.g. over Twilio
• Twitter
• Hipchat
• Skype
• Kik
• Line
• IBM Bot Asset Exchange

Personal Assistants

• Apple Siri
• Google Assistant
• Amazon Alexa
• Cortana
• Viv - Promising artificial intelligence platform
• Magic - Text to get anything ondemand
• Sensay - Instantly connect with a real human whenever you need advice or inspiration.

Chatbots

• Botlist - An App Store For Bots
• A. L. I. C. E.
• Mitsuku - Won most humanlike AI in Loebner Price
• Microsoft XiaoIce in Chinese
• Microsoft Tay
• Cleverbot
• BotList.net - A list of bots for Discord, Slack, Telegram and more

Resources

• Beginner’s Guide To Chatbots - Good introduction
• Chatbots Magazine - A good place to Learn About Chatbots
• Bot Weekly - Weekly round up of the most interesting chatbot and AI news
• Bot Wiki - Catalog of online bots, tools and tutorials

Tutorials

• How To Develop A Chat Bot With Node.js - Tutorial for Claudia Bot Builder
• Handling Permissions with DialogFlow and Actions On Google - Tutorial for the Google Assistant & DialogFlow
• Build multi-lingual Actions for the Google Assistant - Tutorial for the Google Assistant & DialogFlow
• Mastering follow-up intents with DialogFlow - Tutorial for the Google Assistant & DialogFlow

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines first.