Bot Libre now supports integrating with XML and JSON web services, HTML scraping, and access to Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, email, and other services. From our scripting languages Self, and AIML you can now access any web service that returns XML or JSON data. You can also scrape information from HTML web pages, and send emails, tweets, Facebook posts, Telegram posts, and more.

Web Services

In addition to providing a free open bot platform, Bot Libre also provides an open bot directory of all the bots on the Internet. Chat bots, Twitter bots, Facebook bots, Telegram bots, Slack bots, IRC bots, email bots, bot apps, and every other type of bot on the Internet.

The Open Bot Directory

There was another minor website update this week.

Some new learning options were added.

From your bot's Learning page you can now configure your bot's learning rate.

The learning rate allows you to set the rate at which the bot learns new responses.  Previously a bot would learn a new response after it heard it used a single time.  Now you can lower the learning rate to require the bot to hear the same response several times before it considers it a

Bot Libre includes support for creating, using, and embedding web avatars. A web avatar is your website's visual or animated web presence.

We have been having some issues with spam and abuse lately, so have had to impose an rate limit on our anonymous web API. If you are using the web API ensure you set your application id.

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Just a note on how to correctly use the web API.

When you use the web API ensure that you pass your application id. An app id is free, and you can easily get one from your user page. You need to pass your app id on every request.

The Bot Libre SDK is a Software Development Kit that makes it simple to add a chat bot to your own mobile application or website.

Bot Libre provides SDKs for several languages and platforms including, JavaScript, Android, Java, and iOS/iPhone.

The website was updated today.

The update included: