Botpress, a bot builder system

[yusf]

Just discovered this - looks great - going to investigate further!

• https://botpress.com
• https://github.com/botpress
• https://alternativeto.net/software/botstar/

[517yykk]

looks great, up up up

[yusf]

Yes, it’d be much fun!

[yusf]

We support Basic, SAML and LDAP for the Admin authentication.

🤩

[micmc]

Actually that would be much more than looking great or be much fun as chatbot marketing is among the fastest growing trends right now. That could add more to the benefits for sales of CR servers, which are starting to be quite noticeable already btw, to SMBs.

Andy

[murgero]

Unrelated but I had a chat bot made for IRC / XMPP from back in the days when FB used xmpp for their chat backend. Fond memories from high school.

This app looks like it would be nice to have.

[marcusquinn]

Just discovered this - looks great - going to investigate further!

• https://botpress.com
• https://github.com/botpress
• https://alternativeto.net/software/botstar/

[Mastadamus]

Id be very interested in this. This could integrate nicely with the chat options we already have like rocketchat and Element.

[mdc773]

How can someone help me or show me how to make this an app please

[girish]

@mdc773 are you asking for help in packaging botpress ? https://docs.cloudron.io/packaging/tutorial/ is a good place to start. There is also a separate forum section for asking development and packaging questions.

[mdc773]

@girish thanks I will do this

[LoudLemur]

@marcusquinn This should be the top-post. It has more useful links, screenshots and a alternativeto for comparisons.

@yusuf, I think it might help if you included some tags in the post too, e.g. AI, bots...

[LoudLemur]

@mdc773 said in Botpress, a bot builder system:

thanks I will do this

Hey, well done! I hope you find the process enjoyable and are successful in packaging Botpress.

[girish]

@LoudLemur said in Botpress, a bot builder system:

@marcusquinn This should be the top-post

done!

[micmc]

@girish said in Botpress, a bot builder system:

@LoudLemur said in Botpress, a bot builder system:

@marcusquinn This should be the top-post

done!

Now, I'm not sure if anyone has realised folks, but the OP was in 2019 and as you all know in an area like this one, development goes fast as lightning, and there's been a LOT of improvement with Botpress since the OP.

Like it has now been DOCKERIZED so that means a big step already done to be nearer to possibly get onto Cloudron?

Check this out: https://github.com/botpress/v12
On that page we are invited to use the official Docker image and make sure to follow the hosting docs for installation.

EDIT: I forgot to say the best part, they've also incorporated ChatGPT right inside the app. What? yesss... Check the main page botpress.com

[LoudLemur]

@micmc This is dual-licenced, with AGPL available as the default.

Has anybody been able to run this with a local language model, yet? Self-hosting your own bots without sending telemetry to Big Data companies would surely be the best way.

[sparkwise]

I saw a mention of BotPress integrated with Chatwoot in their documentation on AgentBots at https://www.chatwoot.com/docs/product/others/agent-bots/#implementation-examples

I haven’t tried this out, so it’s not an endorsement, but I did want to highlight that in addition to its standalone capabilities, BotPress may integrate with and complement Chatwoot.

[micmc]

@sparkwise said in Botpress, a bot builder system:

I saw a mention of BotPress integrated with Chatwoot in their documentation on AgentBots at https://www.chatwoot.com/docs/product/others/agent-bots/#implementation-examples

I haven’t tried this out, so it’s not an endorsement, but I did want to highlight that in addition to its standalone capabilities, BotPress may integrate with and complement Chatwoot.

That is actually the case with TypeBot, which is already available on Cloudron and connects to Chatwoot too.

You can also connect BOTH to OpenAI and enhance your bots with AI. Powerful! That should not exclude that BotPress would be a great addition too.