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Nestor vs Errbot: What are the differences?

Developers describe Nestor as "Hosted Hubot for Slack". Supercharge your team with Bot Powers in Seconds. On the other hand, Errbot is detailed as "A chatbot that connects to your favorite chat service and brings your tools into the conversation". The main use is to make it easy for you to write your own plugins so you can make it do whatever you want: a deployment, retrieving some information online, trigger a tool via an API.

Nestor and Errbot belong to "ChatOps" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Nestor are:

  • Heroku: Manage your Heroku apps with Nestor.
  • Trello: Manage your Trello cards, boards and lists with Nestor.
  • Github: Look at issues, merge branches and get Github stats with Nestor.

On the other hand, Errbot provides the following key features:

  • Multiple server backends
  • Core features
  • Built-in administration and security

Errbot is an open source tool with 2.08K GitHub stars and 469 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Errbot's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is Errbot?

    The main use is to make it easy for you to write your own plugins so you can make it do whatever you want: a deployment, retrieving some information online, trigger a tool via an API.

    What is Nestor?

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