Botpress is an on-prem, open-source chatbot building platform for businesses.
Botpress is a Node.js package and works with Node and npm.
The fastest way to start with Botpress is using botpress-kick-starter repository that is already integrated with Rocket.Chat via botpress-channel connector.
Navigate to the folder where you want to work with the bot and proceed with the following steps:
1. install botpress package
npm init -y
npm install [email protected]
1. create a bot
mkdir bot
cd bot
../node_modules/.bin/botpress init
botpress init command launches a wizard that will help you create the initial configuration. You should see something as follows:
$ ../node_modules/.bin/botpress init
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Hey there 👋, thanks for using Botpress!
We'll walk you through the creation of your new bot.
For more information or help, please visit https://botpress.io/docs
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name: (bot) botpress-bot
botpress version: (10.40.0)
description: Test bot for docs
author: Anton Zolotukhin
=============================
Template: Basic (default)
Author: Botpress, Inc.
Description: A basic bot for your website
Channels: web
=============================
-> Copying .welcome
-> Copying botfile.js
-> Copying config/channel-web.json
-> Copying config/nlu.json
-> Copying generated/content/builtin_text.json
-> Copying generated/flows/main.flow.json
-> Copying generated/flows/main.ui.json
-> Copying generated/intents/forget.json
-> Copying generated/intents/forget.utterances.txt
-> Copying generated/intents/hello.json
-> Copying generated/intents/hello.utterances.txt
-> Copying generated/intents/none.json
-> Copying generated/intents/none.utterances.txt
-> Copying index.js
-> Copying package.json
-> Copying README.md
-> Copying src/actions.js
-> Copying src/content/.empty
-> Copying src/custom.js
-> Copying src/index.js
-> Copying src/renderers.js
-> Copying .gitignore
🎉 Your bot was initialized succesfully!
Next steps:
1) Install bot dependencies by running npm install (or yarn install)
2) Start the bot by running npm start (or yarn start)
Enjoy Botpress!
1. install botpress connector and bot dependencies
npm install
npm install botpress-channel-rocketchat
2. configure the bot
Open config folder and create channel-rocketchat.json file with the following content:
{
"ROCKETCHAT_USER": <BOTPRESS USER NAME>,
"ROCKETCHAT_PASSWORD": <BOTPRESS USER PASS>,
"ROCKETCHAT_URL": <ROCKETCHAT HOST>,
"ROCKETCHAT_USE_SSL": <SSL USAGE>,
"ROCKETCHAT_ROOM": <ROCKETCHAT CHANNEL>,
"scope": ""
}
Adjust the content to fit your server and user credentials. Make sure mybotuser has a BOT role on the server. For more information on how to create a bot user please refer to this page.
3. run the bot
npm start
After executing the command, botpress will try to do the following actions:
- launch botpress instance;
- launch dedicated Admin Dashboard;
- launch dedicated Webchat window;
- connect to the Rocket.Chat instance;
- listen to messages in
generalroom.
$ npm start
> [email protected] start /botpress-bot/bot
> node index.js
19:27:44 - debug: [DB Janitor] Added table "logs"
19:27:44 - info: Starting botpress version 10.40.0
19:27:44 - info: [DB Janitor] Started
19:27:44 - info: [Ghost Content Manager] (transparent) Initialized
19:27:44 - debug: [Ghost Content Manager] (transparent) Added root folder generated/media, doing nothing.
19:27:44 - debug: [Ghost Content Manager] (transparent) Added root folder generated/flows, doing nothing.
19:27:44 - info: [Skills] Initiated
19:27:44 - info: Loaded @botpress/audience, version 10.40.0
19:27:44 - verbose: [Renderers] Enabled for webchat.
19:27:44 - info: Loaded @botpress/channel-web, version 10.40.0
19:27:44 - info: Loaded @botpress/hitl, version 10.40.0
19:27:44 - debug: [Ghost Content Manager] (transparent) Added root folder generated/intents, doing nothing.
19:27:44 - debug: [Ghost Content Manager] (transparent) Added root folder generated/entities, doing nothing.
19:27:44 - info: Loaded @botpress/nlu, version 10.40.0
19:27:44 - info: Loaded @botpress/skill-choice, version 10.40.0
19:27:44 - warn: DEPRECATION NOTICE – bp.umm is deprecated and will be removed – Please see bp.renderers instead.
19:27:44 - warn: DEPRECATION NOTICE – bp.umm is deprecated and will be removed – Please see bp.renderers instead.
19:27:44 - verbose: [Renderers] Enabled for rocketchat.
19:27:44 - info: Loaded botpress-channel-rocketchat, version 0.0.14
19:27:44 - info: Loaded 6 modules
19:27:44 - info: [Skills] Loaded 1 skills
19:27:44 - debug: [Ghost Content Manager] (transparent) Added root folder generated/content, doing nothing.
19:27:44 - debug: Loading middleware: rendering.instrumentation
19:27:44 - debug: Loading middleware: hitl.captureInMessages
19:27:44 - debug: Loading middleware: nlu.incoming
19:27:44 - debug: Loading middleware: hear
19:27:44 - debug: Loading middleware: hitl.captureOutMessages
19:27:44 - debug: Loading middleware: webchat.sendMessages
19:27:44 - debug: Loading middleware: rocketchat.sendMessages
19:27:44 - debug: Loading middleware: fallback
19:27:44 - debug: Loading data for builtin_text from builtin_text.json
19:27:44 - info: Read 7 item(s) from builtin_text.json
19:27:44 - info: Bot launched. Visit: http://localhost:3000
[connect] Connecting { username: 'bot',
password: 'pass',
ldap: false,
host: 'bots.rocket.chat',
useSsl: true,
timeout: 20000,
rooms: [],
allPublic: false,
dm: false,
livechat: false,
edited: false,
integrationId: 'js.SDK',
roomCacheMaxSize: 10,
roomCacheMaxAge: 300000,
dmCacheMaxSize: 10,
dmCacheMaxAge: 100000 }
19:27:44 - debug: Loading data for builtin_image from builtin_image.json
19:27:44 - debug: Loading data for builtin_single-choice from builtin_single-choice.json
19:27:44 - debug: Loading data for builtin_card from builtin_card.json
19:27:44 - debug: Loading data for builtin_action-button from builtin_action-button.json
19:27:44 - debug: Loading data for builtin_carousel from builtin_carousel.json
19:27:44 - debug: Loading data for builtin_raw from builtin_raw.json
19:27:45 - debug: [NLU::Native] Model is up to date
19:27:45 - info: ------------
19:27:45 - info: Webchat available at http://localhost:3000/s/chat
19:27:45 - info: ------------
[connect] Connected
[login] Logging in DocsBot
[getRoomIdByNameOrId] Calling (caching): general
[getRoomIdByNameOrId] Success: "GENERAL"
[joinRoom] Calling (async): ["GENERAL"]
[joinRoom] Success
[subscribe] Preparing subscription: stream-room-messages: __my_messages__
[subscribe] Stream ready: 4
LISTEN TRIGGERED
[reactive] Listening for change events in collection stream-room-messages
4. talk to your bot
On the server, login as a regular user (not the BOT user), go to general room, and talk to your newly created bot:
