Powerful AIML2 chatbot client for ARC using the Bot Libre opensource cloud service
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Manual
AIML2 chatbot client for ARC using the Bot Libre free open source cloud service. Bot Libre lets anyone create a chatbot for their robot with unique and customizable personalities.
Get Started
1) Visit https://botlibre.com
2) Press Sign Up (don't worry it's free)

3) Verify the email that Bot Libre will send to you. This email verification must be done in order for the API calls to work, otherwise you will receive an error when using this robot skill.

4) Activate the API by obtaining an "Application ID" in Bot Libre's "User Settings". Click User Settings from the top menu of the website under your username. Then press the "Obtain" next to Application ID. This step is also required for the API calls of the robot skill to work.

5) Press the BOTS icon and New Bot

6) Give your bot a name and select it to be built off an existing bot. It's best to make your bot private as well using the checkbox for Private.

Using in ARC
In arc, you will enter the username and password of the botlibre.com website in the config window. Then, press the Refresh Bot List button and select the bot you wish to use. Your bot will only display in Private if it is marked as private when it was created on bot libre's website. Otherwise, you can revisit botlibre.com and edit the bot to set it as private.

TO DO
- add option to play the audio generated from the bot
- parse response for [ scripts ] to display embedded scripts
I have been playing around with this a bit. It is important to understand how the bot is setup on their website. There are many options and the tutorials are not all that great. Where you want to start depends on what you want to do. Also, until the bug is fixed you can only have one bot at a time on their website to import. I have made and deleted a few of each. I have had the most entertaining time with the AI Template. Base your bot off that if you want a learning based robot. It can remember responses. You can import information to talk about and I am still learning about that.
The tutorial above will get you through most of the process, just use the AI template and at some point in the future import chat logs and AIML scripts.
We'll be working through this together
In the Bing configuration where it says 'All recognized script' put in this line of code.
Now you can just talk to it with no typing.Code:
:)*cool*:)
Thomas
EzAng your tester
followed Perry's advice
Their documentation for the API is outdated and doesn't mention any parameter to "filter by personal bots". The only option they documented was "filter private". But even the filtering of private didn't work because our private bots would only list 1 of the many. Their email responses when i raised the issue told me it was because my bots weren't configured correctly. Anyway, this went on for a while where i believe they actually checked and realized "oh man, this guy is right its is broken"
So they got back to me this morning with an email that said to use a different api call, which is not documented anywhere... with a parameter, that is also not documented anywhere
Needless to say, it magically works now haha
thanks
As you have seen above I made a simple app with everything needed to speak and listen to bot libre. here is what I found.
Pros
-The web interface is easy to use to create a bot based on their templates.
-DJ has done a great job of integrating their services.
-They have a couple of different templates and scripts to import that are good.
-It can offer limited learning abilities on things like names.
-They track bot emotion - that is cool
Cons
-It seems to be a dead site and the forum has listings to 2016 as most recent
- The "AI" is not AI by any means.
- They say they support AIML 2 but they don't really, they translate it into their SELF language which make for a lot of confusion for those of us looking for AIML.
-The AIML scripts they have on their site have errors when trying to import so you do not get to use them.
-They have an AI competition which is a really cool idea having different chatbots talking to each other. That would be really cool. The clear winners seem to be pretty dumb when you talk to them one on one.
Summary
-In my opinion this is on par with the Pandorabots plugin that currently exists. I still feel that Pandorabots 2.0 is the golden key. It is the industry leader and perhaps a plugin could support their use with a pay subscription now that we are in pay subscription territory.
Second Summary
My dream of a talking bot that I can talk to is still way off. I seek a fully interactive AI. But I guess if those really existed they would have me working in the dilithium mines. I can tell a bot is a bot in 2 questions. That is sad.
I think a good first step before migrating would be for yourself and perhaps Jeremy or PTP (he's good at this stuff) go in with a programmers mindset and see if you can take a couple hours and create a bot that it truly interactive. Really give it a run through and see what the talent can create.
I don't want you to have to do a lot of reprogramming because I many not be the best person to interpret their platform.