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Bot Connector allows you to connect your bot to multiple messaging channels.
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[Archived] Open Source Bot Connector

As communicated earlier in August 2019, this repository has been archived and the source code is not maintained by the SAP Conversational AI team.

All Bot Connector capabilities are integrated in our bot building platform.

If you are running a standard / customised version of open source bot connector on your platform, please migrate to the bot connector available on our bot building platform (hosted in on SAP Cloud Platform), which offers integration with a wide number of channels which that we plan to make more robust.

If you have any questions, please contact our team.

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Bot Connector

Bot Connector allows you to connect your bot to multiple messaging channels.

It provides a higher level API to manage several messaging platforms at once, and lets you focus on your bot by using a simple and unique format to talk to the entire world.

Documentation

You can see the API documentation here

Or generate the documentation with the following command:

yarn docs && open docs/index.html

Supported Channels

Bot Connector supports the following channels:

You can find more information on each channel in the wiki

More will be added, and you can contribute if you want to, and add a thumbs up for the channel you want to see implemented first ;) (To do so, fork this repo, add a thumbs up and make a PR!)

Getting started

The following examples use yarn package manager but you can use your favorite one like npm, or pnpm.

In order to run the connector you need MongoDB and Redis installed and running. The configuration files for both are stored in config directory.

Installation

Clone the repository and install the dependencies

git clone https://github.com/SAPConversationalAI/bot-connector.git
cd bot-connector
yarn install

Available Commands

Configurations/Environments

You need to create a configuration file based on the following schema:

config/{env}.js (e.g. config/development.js for NODE_ENV=development)

module.exports = {
  db: {
    host: 'localhost',
    port: 27017,
    dbName: 'botconnector',
  },
  server: {
    port: 8080,
  },
  redis: {
    port: 6379,
    host: 'localhost',
    auth: '',
    db: 7,
    options: {},  // see https://github.com/mranney/node_redis#rediscreateclient
  },
  mail: {},  // valid object to be passed to nodemail.createTransport()
  base_url: '',  // base url of the connector
  facebook_app_id: '',
  facebook_app_secret: '',
  facebook_app_webhook_token: '',
  amazon_client_id: '',  // Client ID for use with Login with Amazon (Amazon Alexa channel)
  amazon_client_secret: '',  // Client Id for use with Login with Amazon (Amazon Alexa channel)
}

Running in development mode (hot reload)

yarn start:dev

Setup your connector

First of all, you need to create a connector with the Bot Connector's API.

curl -X POST 'http://localhost:8080/connectors' --data 'url=YOUR_BOT_ENDPOINT_URL'

Then you need some code so the Bot Connector, via the connector you've just created, can send you the messages it receives. You can use the code from the example as a starter.

cd example
yarn install
yarn start

Now that your bot (well, your code) and the Bot Connector are running, you have to create channels. A channel is the actual link between your bot (the connector) and a specific service like Messenger, Slack or Kik. One connector can have multiple channels.

How it works

There are two distinct flows:

This pipeline allows us to have an abstraction of messages independent of the platform and implement only a few functions for each messaging platform (input and output parsing).

Receive a message

The Bot Connector posts on the endpoint stored with the connector each time a new message arrives from a channel.

BotConnector-Receive

Post a message

To send a new message, you have to post it to Bot Connector's API

BotConnector-Sending

Messages format

All messages coming from the bot are parsed and modified to match the destination channel specifications. Bot Connector supports several message formats:

{
  type: 'text',
  content: 'MY_TEXT',
}
{
  type: 'picture',
  content: 'IMAGE_URL',
}
{
  type: 'video',
  content: 'VIDEO_URL',
}
{
  type: 'quickReplies',
  content: {
    title: 'TITLE',
    buttons: [
      {
        title: 'BUTTON_1_TITLE',
        value: 'BUTTON_1_VALUE',
      }, {
        title: 'BUTTON_2_TITLE',
        value: 'BUTTON_2_VALUE',
      }
    ]
  }
}
{
  type: 'card',
  content: {
    title: 'CARD_TITLE',
    subtitle: 'CARD_SUBTITLE',
    imageUrl: 'IMAGE_URL',
    buttons: [
      {
        title: 'BUTTON_TITLE',
        type: 'BUTTON_TYPE', // See Facebook Messenger button formats
        value: 'BUTTON_VALUE',
      }
    ],
  },
}
{
  type: 'carousel',
  content: [
    {
      title: 'CARD_1_TITLE',
      imageUrl: 'IMAGE_URL',
      buttons: [
        {
          title: 'BUTTON_1_TITLE',
          value: 'BUTTON_1_VALUE',
          type: 'BUTTON_1_TYPE',
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
}

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