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.
Errbot is a tool in the Messaging category of a tech stack.
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What are some alternatives to Errbot?
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.
Hubot is a chat bot, modeled after GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool. He's extendable with old community scripts, or new community org and your own custom scripts, and can work on many different chat services.
Give users new ways to interact with your product by building engaging voice and text-based conversational apps.
The Microsoft Bot Framework provides just what you need to build and connect intelligent bots that interact naturally wherever your users are talking, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services.
Zulip, StackStorm, Mattermost, RocketChat, Apache OpenWhisk and 2 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Errbot. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Errbot.