Open Source Bot Frameworks

Rasa is an open source machine learning framework to automate text-and voice-based conversations. With Rasa, you can build contextual assistants on Facebook Messenger, Slack, Google Hangouts, Webex Teams, Microsoft Bot Framework, Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, Telegram, and Twilio or on your own custom conversational channels. Rasa helps you build contextual assistants capable of having layered conversations with lots of back-and-forths. In order for a human to have a meaningful exchange with a contextual assistant, the assistant needs to be able to use context to build on things that were previously discussed. Rasa enables you to build assistants that can do this in a scalable way. Rasa uses Poetry for packaging and dependency management. If you want to build it from the source, you have to install Poetry first. By default, Poetry will try to use the currently activated Python version to create the virtual environment for the current project automatically.

Write your chatbot logic once and connect it to one of the available messaging services, including Amazon Alexa, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram or even your own Website. BotMan is framework agnostic, which means you can use it in your existing codebase, whatever framework you might use. Starting a new chatbot project? BotMan Studio is a Laravel 5.5 boiler project to get you started in no time! BotMan is all about having an expressive, yet powerful syntax that allows you to focus on the business logic, not on framework code. BotMan is a framework agnostic PHP library that is designed to simplify the task of developing innovative bots for multiple messaging platforms, including Slack, Telegram, Microsoft Bot Framework, Nexmo, HipChat, Facebook Messenger and WeChat.

Hubot is a framework to build a custom chat bot, first built by GitHub, Inc. to automate their company chat room. Hubot gives you a very nice base for building your very own robot friend. Hubot comes with a small group of core scripts, including things like posting images, translating languages, and integrating with Google Maps. It's extendable with many other scripts, which make Hubot all the more personalized to fit your organization's needs and culture. Hubot can work on many different chat services, including third-party adapters Gitter, IRC, Slack and more. Build your own personalized chat bot with Hubot!

A chatbot framework currently implementing the ErkiTalk and irc protocol. By specifying parsers for the server's input one can easily create custom bots (if one can program in java of course ;).

Building a chatbot can sound daunting, but it’s totally doable. AI Chatbot Framework is an AI powered conversational dialog interface built in Python. With this tool, it’s easy to create Natural Language conversational scenarios with no coding efforts whatsoever. The smooth UI makes it effortless to create and train conversations to the bot and it continuously gets smarter as it learns from conversations it has with people. AI Chatbot Framework can live on any channel of your choice (such as Messenger, Slack etc.) by integrating it’s API with that platform. You don’t need to be an expert at artificial intelligence to create an awesome chatbot that has AI capabilities. With this boilerplate project you can create an AI-powered chatting machine in no time.

BoomBot is a developer's framework for writing a bot connecting to the AIM network. It manages the network communication for the bots so that they can be easily written without worrying about AIM itself at all. Bots can be written in Objective-C or Lua.

An open source developer tool for building chat bots, apps and custom integrations for major messaging platforms. Part of the Microsoft Bot Framework. We love bots, and want to make them easy and fun to build! Include Botkit into your Node application and boot up a controller that will define your bot's behaviors. In this case, we're setting up a bot to use with the Bot Framework Emulator. Tell the bot to listen for users saying "hello," and use `bot.reply` to send an immediate response. Start a conversation, then queue up multiple messages to send, including a prompt sent using `convo.ask()` which allows your bot to capture user input and use it. Botkit is just one part of a bigger set of developer tools and SDKs that encompass the Microsoft Bot Framework. The Bot Framework SDK provides the base upon which Botkit is built. It is available in multiple programming languages!

Cog brings the power of the command line to the place you collaborate with your team all the time, your chat window. Powerful access control means you can collaborate around even the most sensitive tasks with confidence. A focus on extensibility and adaptability means that you can respond quickly to the unexpected, without your team losing visibility. Use Cog to manage your infrastructure, support peer learning, and conduct collaborative research at the same time, right from chat. Cog is easy to install and simple to operate while remaining powerful enough to handle complex enterprise workflows. Cog brings the power of the command line to the place you collaborate with your team all the time, your chat window. Powerful access control means you can collaborate around even the most sensitive tasks with confidence. A focus on extensibility and adaptability means that you can respond quickly to the unexpected, without your team losing visibility.

Duke is an IRC-bot framework based on PircBot library. It provides extensible IRC messages handling bus, made of modules integrated by Spring IoC container.

Ennesbot is an open source automated IRC client (aka Bot) written entirely in Python. It uses direct sockets and medusa style sockets. It has pluggable python personality modules that can extend the bot.

Globsy is a PHP bot framework for the Google Talk network. Globsy can be executed from a regular browser on a PHP enabled server, connect to the Google Talk network and continue running in the background, without the browser needing to remain open.

Hokan is an IRC bot developed using Java programming language and using PircBot framework. First version development was started around year 2001. Join #HokanDEV@IRCNet to find out more! Current version of Hokan is maintained in GitHub: https://github.com/petria/hokan_ng

IM Bot Framework is an adapter to interface console I/O programs to IM servers. The goal of this program is to allow easy development of bots in any programming language that can read from and write to stdio.

This software allows a MUD server to be run as a Jabber bot. Users can then play the MUD using their Jabber client instead of a MUD client or telnet. This relieves the MUD server from having to handle user chat as users can chat in Jabber instead.

a simple, extensible Instant Messenger TOC bot framework written in Java using Jaimlib 0.5 or greater. services for incoming IMs are created simply by implementing a handle() method, and sample handler code is included.

JIB - Java IM Bot, aimed to built a pluggable, customizable, expandable and dynamic bot framework for instant messager. With JIB user can control remote IM Bots over web based interface, configure bots to perform various tasks or custom behavior.

Java IRC Bot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily. Its features include an event-driven architecture to handle common IRC events, flood protection, DCC resuming support, ident support, and more.

A C++ class based multi-threaded client for the MSN Messenger network, targetted at creating a so called "bot"

Messaging APIs is a mono repo that collects APIs needed for bot development. It helps you build your bots using a similar API for multiple platforms, e.g. Messenger, LINE. Learn once and make writing cross-platform bots easier. If you are looking for a framework to build your bots, Bottender may suit for your needs. It is built on top of Messaging APIs and provides some powerful features for bot building.

PHP-MSNBot is a MSN bot completly written in php and currently uses MSN Protocol 9.

An open source plugin framework built for the PircBot Java IRC Bot Framework

General and simple IRC bot framework with very flexible bus architecture and plugins support, originally written for use as RPC gateway for remote message sending to multiple IRC channels or users. Now: http://github.com/martinkozak/pyircgate-daemon.

makes writing python bots easy, and transport independant, allowing the same bot code to run on multiple protocols.

Quellism is an object-oriented IRC bot framework, using the CPAN module POE::Component::IRC. It features configuration files, authentication system, on-the-fly operator status/blacklists, and has a channel linking system which supports unlimited channels!

Roobot is a PHP IRC bot framework. It uses simple event based programming, and it's own scripting language, based on PHP.