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Botkit vs Telegram Bot API: What are the differences?
What is Botkit? Building Blocks for Building Slack Bots. Botkit designed to ease the process of designing and running useful, creative bots that live inside Slack, Facebook Messenger and other messaging platforms.
What is Telegram Bot API? HTTP-based interface created for developers keen on building bots for Telegram. Bots are third-party applications that run inside Telegram. Users can interact with bots by sending them messages, commands and inline requests. You control your bots using HTTPS requests to our bot API.
Botkit and Telegram Bot API can be categorized as "Chatbot Platforms &" tools.
Botkit is an open source tool with 9.29K GitHub stars and 2.03K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Botkit's open source repository on GitHub.
Yotpo, Buddy, and Permabots are some of the popular companies that use Telegram Bot API, whereas Botkit is used by emojination, Taggun, and BubbleIQ. Telegram Bot API has a broader approval, being mentioned in 21 company stacks & 25 developers stacks; compared to Botkit, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.
Hi, does anyone have recommendations for a chatbot framework? I am currently using Botpress, and I am not happy with it. The upside is: They pretty much have everything you can ask for in a bot solution, but the issue is: They did nothing right, the documentation is terrible, and you have this feeling of it falling apart at any time, which is what actually happened once.
My ideal solution would have:
- Support for Messenger and web (should either have a website chat plugin or straightforward integration with a different one)
- A visual builder (for none tech team members) | This is not a hard requirement though
- A slick DX for building simple things like API calls or more advanced stuff.
- We currently only have a "click bot," so no crazy NLP features required, but in the future a requirement
What I do not want: - I do not want a solution where "someone else" builds the bot for me
Dialogflow includes:
- OOTB integration with Messenger and you may use the Web Demo integration provided to embed it to your website. For Messenger, you even have some responses such as image responses, card responses and for those that are not available you can use custom payload.
- It has a very nice visual builder which can be easily used by non-technical builders.
- Fulfillment allows you to easily integrate your APIs.
Coursera has a very nice two-week course to learn how to use it.
Pros of Botkit
- Relatively easy to understand and help/active community3
Pros of Telegram Bot API
- Integrating with other services10
- Getting customized notifications and news8
- Creating custom tools like GitHub bot6
- Easy setup5
- Great documentation which is easily understandable4
- Creating private/public bots4
- Easily manageable1
