Awesome Bots – Massive Collection of Resources

Table of Contents

• Platform Documentation
• Tools For Building Bots
• Tools For Bot Analytics
• Tools For Bot Conversation Mockups
• Libraries
• Bot Stores
• Tutorials
• Communities
• Developers
• Testing

Platform Documentation

• IBM Bot Asset Exchange
• Facebook messenger
• Slack
• Discord
• Telegram
• Kik
• Zulip
• HipChat
• Skype
• Cisco Spark
• Microsoft Bot Framework
• WeChat
• VKontakte
• Hangouts Chat

Tools For Building Bots

• wit.ai – Easily create text or voice based bots that humans can chat with.
• Botkit – Botkit eases the process of designing and running bots that live inside Slack.
• Dialogflow – Build natural and rich conversational experiences.
• Text It – Visually build SMS and voice apps to engage your customers.
• Chatfuel – The intuitive bot builder with AI navigation. No coding required.
• Watson – Bring the power of cognitive computing to your apps.
• Beep Boop – Beep Boop is a simple hosting platform for your Slack and Messenger bots.
• Dexter – Get a Slack bot that responds with answers from your own Google Sheet.
• Converse AI – Respond to customer questions instantly with intelligent chatbot technology.
• Gupshup – Easiest & fastest way to build & deploy your bots on any channel.
• Haven OnDemand – They are similar APIs as that of watson, but far well documented and have a freemium version.
• Recast.AI – Collaborative Bot Platform for developers: build conversational bots easily.
• ChatterBot – Machine-learning based conversational dialog engine build in Python
• Google Cloud Platform – Use sentiment analysis on a block of text to add decision tree logic for a conversation bot.
• Messenger Demo Viewer – Demo FB Messenger bots without showing personal chats
• BotStar – Powerful platform for designing & developing chatbots visually with smart training.

Tools For Bot Analytics

• ChatMetrics – Engagement platform for bots. ChatMetrics allows to reactivate inactive users and improve retention by sending “smart” notifications to users.
• Dialog – Chatbot analytics platform for marketers to drive user engagement, retention, conversion and understand behavior.
• Dashbot – Actionable Bot Analytics: Increase user engagement, acquisition, and monetization.
• Botmetrics – Grow and retain your chatbot customers. Enterprise grade opensource conversational analytics, marketing automation, and CRM rolled into a single snippet of code.

Tools For Bot Conversation Mockups

• Bot Society – Bot conversation Mockups for presentation and demo.
• Bot Sketch – Sketch Chatbot UI (Mac Only)
• Botframe – a playground to design bots (conversation mockups).
• Botmock – Create conversation flows and interactive prototypes from a simple drag and drop editor, then share or test those prototypes and get feedback in one centralized location.
• BotStar – A fullfledged chatbot platform but the visual editor can be used as a mockup tool as well.

Libraries

General

• Qtypes – Rule based Answer Type classification system in Node.js.
• BotKit – Botkit is a toolkit for making bot applications.
• Claudia Bot Builder – Create chat bots for FB, Slack, Skype and Telegram and deploy to AWS Lambda in minutes.
• Universal Bot Framework – Create crossplatform chat bots for FB Messenger, Kik, Telegram and Skype with just one logic.
• Pandorabots – web service for building and deploying chatbots.
• Microsoft Bot Framework – Node.js/.NET library for building, connecting, testing, and deploying powerful and intelligent bots.
• Bottender – Make Bots in Your Way, Fast and Flexibly.
• BotMan – PHP Bot Framework supporting over a dozen platforms (FB, Instagram, MS Bot Framework, etc)

Facebook Messenger

• Node.js
• Go

Slack

• Node.js (Official)
• Node.js
• Python (Official)
• Relax (scalable RTM library to scale to 1000’s of teams)

Telegram

• Node.js
• Node.js
• Node.js
• PHP
• PHP
• Python
• C#
• Go
• Java

Discord

Node.js

• Eris
• Discord.js
• Discordie
• Discord.io

C#

• Discord.Net
• DSharpPlus

Python

• discord.py

Java

• JDA

Rust

• Serenity

Lua

• Discordia

Go

• Discordgo

Kik

• Python
• Node.JS

Bot Stores

• There is a bot for that – Search engine for bots
• ChatBottle – Chatbots search engine
• BotList – An App Store For Bots.
• Slack Store – The official Slack bot store.
• Telegram Store – The unofficial Telegram bot store.
• Product Hunt – Product Hunt bot list.
• Dashbot – Dashbot bot directory.
• Skype Bot Directory – The official list of skype bots by Microsoft Bot Framework
• Teamchat – Bot store by teamchat.
• Discord Bots – An unofficial list of discord bots.
• Discord Bot List – An unofficial list of discord bots.
• Telegram Botlist – A bot list for Telegram.
• Mayo Bot List – An unofficial list of discord bots.
• Terminal Bot List – An unofficial list of discord bots.

Tutorials

• The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Chatbots.
• The Secret To Making Your Own Facebook Messenger Bot In Less Than 15 Minutes.
• How to create a chatbot without coding a single line
• How To Build Bots for Messenger.
• Creating A Chat Bot.
• A Beginner’s Guide To Your First Bot.
• Pair Programming a Facebook Messenger Bot.
• Facebook Chatbot Tutorial
• Design Framework For Chatbots
• UX of Chatbots

Communities

• Bots – Facebook group.
• UX for Bots – Facebook group.
• Chat Bot Magazine – Medium.
• HH Bots – Facebook group.
• Messenger Platform Developer Community – Official Facebook group.
• Chatbots and Conversational Agents – Quora Topic
• Bot Developer Hangouts – Community on Slack for all bot platforms.
• BotList Chat – Telegram group.
• Bot Development – Telegram group.

Conferences

• ChatbotConf
• Talkabot

Developers

• BotMakers – The best place to hire chatbot developers
• Botgig – Hire a top chatbot dev from a vetted talent pool.

Testing

• ChatbotTest – Chatbottest is an open source guide that helps you identify chatbot’s design issues under 7 different categories.
• BotTesting – Test your bot! Send your email and bot link to us, we’ll examine your bot’s performance and usability