83 Tools for Building Bots and Libraries to Help You Out

An Internet bot, web robot, robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are simple and repetitive much faster than a person could. Bots are made from sets of algorithms which aid them in their designated tasks. Tasks bots can normally handle include conversing with a human, which attempts to mimic human behaviors or gathering content from other websites.

The list helps you take a step-by-step approach to creating different kinds of bots, depending on your needs and requirements covering on a great number of platforms. You’ll learn how to build bots with AI, chatbots, bots deployments, actionable bot analytics and many more for your applications. Various libraries for different platforms are provided including Facebook, Slack, Telegram, Discord, etc. Tutorials, communities and other Bot stores are listed as well.

Tools For Building Bots

1. wit.ai
   Easily create text or voice based bots that humans can chat with.
2. Dialogflow
   Build natural and rich conversational experiences.
3. Text It
   Visually build SMS and voice apps to engage your customers.
4. Chatfuel
   The intuitive bot builder with AI navigation. No coding required.
5. Watson
   Bring the power of cognitive computing to your apps.
6. Converse AI
   Respond to customer questions instantly with intelligent chatbot technology.
7. Gupshup
   Easiest & fastest way to build & deploy your bots on any channel.
8. Recast.AI
   Collaborative Bot Platform for developers: build conversational bots easily.
9. ChatterBot
   Machine-learning based conversational dialog engine build in Python
10. Google Cloud Platform
    Use sentiment analysis on a block of text to add decision tree logic for a conversation bot.
11. Messenger Demo Viewer
    Demo FB Messenger bots without showing personal chats
12. BotStar
    Powerful platform for designing & developing chatbots visually with smart training.

Tools For Bot Analytics

1. Dashbot
   Actionable Bot Analytics: Increase user engagement, acquisition, and monetization.
2. Botmetrics
   Grow and retain your chatbot customers. Enterprise grade opensource conversational analytics, marketing automation, and CRM rolled into a single snippet of code.

Tools For Bot Conversation Mockups

1. Bot Society
   Bot conversation Mockups for presentation and demo.
2. Bot Sketch
   Sketch Chatbot UI (Mac Only)
3. Botframe
   A playground to design bots (conversation mockups).
4. Botmock
   Create conversation flows and interactive prototypes from a simple drag and drop editor, then share or test those prototypes and get feedback in one centralized location.
5. BotStar
   A fullfledged chatbot platform but the visual editor can be used as a mockup tool as well.

LIBRARIES

General

1. Qtypes
   Rule based Answer Type classification system in Node.js.
2. BotKit
   Botkit is a toolkit for making bot applications.
3. Claudia Bot Builder
   Create chat bots for FB, Slack, Skype and Telegram and deploy to AWS Lambda in minutes.
4. Universal Bot Framework
   Create crossplatform chat bots for FB Messenger, Kik, Telegram and Skype with just one logic.
5. Pandorabots
   web service for building and deploying chatbots.
6. Microsoft Bot Framework
   Node.js/.NET library for building, connecting, testing, and deploying powerful and intelligent bots.
7. Bottender
   Make Bots in Your Way, Fast and Flexibly.
8. BotMan
   PHP Bot Framework supporting over a dozen platforms (FB, Instagram, MS Bot Framework, etc)

Facebook Messenger

1. Node.js
2. Go

Slack

1. Node.js (Official)
2. Node.js
3. Python (Official)
4. Relax (scalable RTM library to scale to 1000’s of teams)

Telegram

1. Node.js
2. Node.js
3. Node.js
4. PHP
5. PHP
6. Python
7. C#
8. Go
9. Java

Node.js (Discord)

1. Eris
2. Discord.js
3. Discordie

C# (Discord)

1. Discord.Net

Java (Discord)

1. JDA

Rust (Discord)

1. Serenity

Lua (Discord)

1. Discordia

Go (Discord)

1. Discordgo

Kik

1. Python
2. Node.JS

Bot Stores

1. There is a bot for that
   Search engine for bots
2. ChatBottle
   Chatbots search engine
3. Slack Store
   The official Slack bot store.
4. Telegram Store
   The unofficial Telegram bot store.
5. Product Hunt
   Product Hunt bot list.
6. Dashbot
   Dashbot bot directory.
7. Skype Bot Directory
   The official list of skype bots by Microsoft Bot Framework
8. Teamchat
   Bot store by teamchat.
9. Discord Bot List
   An unofficial list of discord bots.
10. Telegram Botlist
    A bot list for Telegram.
11. Mayo Bot List
    An unofficial list of discord bots.

Tutorials

1. The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Chatbots.
2. The Secret To Making Your Own Facebook Messenger Bot In Less Than 15 Minutes.
3. How to create a chatbot without coding a single line
4. How To Build Bots for Messenger.
5. Creating A Chat Bot.
6. Pair Programming a Facebook Messenger Bot.
7. Design Framework For Chatbots
8. UX of Chatbots

Communities

1. Bots
   Facebook group.
2. UX for Bots
   Facebook group.
3. Chat Bot Magazine
   Medium.
4. HH Bots
   Facebook group.
5. Messenger Platform Developer Community
   Official Facebook group.
6. Chatbots and Conversational Agents
   Quora Topic
7. BotList Chat
   Telegram group.
8. Bot Development
   Telegram group.

Conferences

1. Talkabot

Developers

1. BotMakers
   The best place to hire chatbot developers
2. Botgig
   Hire a top chatbot dev from a vetted talent pool.

Testing

1. ChatbotTest
   Chatbottest is an open source guide that helps you identify chatbot’s design issues under 7 different categories.