Botpress is an open-source bot creation tool written in Javascript. It is powered by a rich set of open-source modules built by the community. We like to say that Botpress is like the WordPress of Chatbots; anyone can create and reuse other people's modules.

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If you feel awesome and want to support us in a small way, please consider starring and/or sharing the repo! This helps us getting known and grow the community. 🙏

Botpress is on a mission to make useful bots ubiquitous by powering developers with the best possible tools to build & manage chatbots. We believe that in order to create great bots, major time should be spent on UX, not on the surrounding (and generic) features.

Botpress requires node (version >= 8.2) and uses npm as package manager.

npm install -g botpress@beta

Creating a bot is simple, you need to run botpress init in a terminal inside an empty directory:

botpress init my-bot

Once your bot is created, you need to run botpress start to start your bot:

botpress start

This will provide you locally a web interface available at http://localhost:3000

Thanks you for your interest in Botpress. Here are some of the many ways to contribute.

• Check out our contributing guide
• Look at our code of conduct
• Engage with us on Social Media
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Like us on Facebook
  • Join our channel on Slack
• Answer and ask questions on the Slack community
• Write and edit the documentation
• Check misspelling in our docs.

For starters, there are some open issues with the first good issue tag which are ideal for starting to contribute. They are all relatively easy to get started with.

Contributions to Botpress will be dual-licensed under AGPLv3 and the Botpress Proprietary License. This means that all contributors need to agree to the dual-license before their contributions can be accepted.

Please follow the Conventional Commits specs when doing commits. PRs not respecting this commit style will be rejected.

There's a Slack community where you are welcome to join us, ask any question and even help others.

Get an invite and join us now! 👉 https://slack.botpress.io

To modify, test or create modules, please install lerna.

Then run lerna bootstrap. This will initialize all modules and link them (using yarn link). Then in your bot, use yarn link @botpress/module-name to use the local version of that module.

Run ./push-changes.sh

Botpress is dual-licensed under AGPLv3 and the Botpress Proprietary License.

By default, any bot created with Botpress is licensed under AGPLv3, but you may change to the Botpress License from within your bot's web interface in a few clicks.

For more information about how the dual-license works and why it works that way please see the FAQS.

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