A Chatbot Bootsrap-Kit based on Meteor and MongoDB.
We have seen a lot of bot platforms and frameworks right? But what about a fully customizable, transparent and open source chatbot platform?
This is exactly what I intend with this project. It's a simple web-project which is pretty easy to get up and running. It currently offers API interfaces for API.ai and motion.ai. In addition it has a built in tracking view where you can see all recent conversations.

Try out my personal implementation here: http://adriankrebs.ch

• What is it?
• Getting started
• Contributing

1. Add NLP API-keys to the settings.json file
2. Customize your dialog with buttons, avatar or other styling
3. meteor --settings settings.json
4. go to localhost:3000 and start chatting :)

To make a chatbot work you need to connect to a NLP engine. I highly recommend the usage of API.ai:

• API.ai tutorial
• API.ai floral shop sample (used for the screenshots)

For very basic dialog structures you could even create your own .json file containing the conversation tree.

By default the text input is enabled. You can customize the input template according to your needs.

• Type 'show buttons' to see how the button input template looks like.
• Check for the api.ai intent name if you would like to display your buttons only for certain intents.

The built in tracking view offers a nice way to track all the conversations with the bot. just go to localhost:3000/tracking

To deploy your bot on heroku I suggest using the Meteor Buildpack Horse

Please fork this repository and contribute back using pull requests.

Any contributions are welcomed and appreciated.

I hope this helps you in building your next chatbot.

Follow me here on Github or on Twitter @adrian_krebs to stay up-to-date about chatbots and their rapid evolving technologies like AI, machine learning and natural language processing.

MIT License (MIT).