Borq

Short for Bot Orchestration, borq is a Bot orchestration framework aimed at making it easy for people to make bots that have register users and manage them in RapidPro and save bot and user conversations in Ona.

Target platforms

Current:

• Facebook messenger

Todo:

• Telegram

Run an example bot

$ FACEBOOK_PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN= FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET= FACEBOOK_VERIFY_TOKEN= yarn dev

const borq = require('borq');
const {
  facebook,
  config
} = borq;

const {controller} = facebook;
const botty = controller.spawn({});

/*
* Set Messenger Profile API
* https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/reference/messenger-profile-api
*/
facebook.setMenu([
  {
    locale: 'default',
    composer_input_disabled: true,
    call_to_actions: [
         {
           title: 'Restart',
           type: 'postback',
           payload: 'restart',
         }, {
           title: 'Other',
           type: 'postback',
           payload: 'other',
         }, {
           type: 'web_url',
           title: 'FAQ',
           url: 'https://goodbotai.github.io/borq/',
           webview_height_ratio: 'full',
         }
       ],
  },
]);
facebook.setGetStarted('start');
facebook.setGreeting('Hello, I am a bot.');

controller.on('facebook_postback', (bot, message) => {
  if (message.payload === 'start') {
    bot.startConversation(message, (err, convo) => {
      convo.addMessage('Welcome to my lair!');
    });
  } else {
    bot.startConversation(message, (err, convo) => {
      convo.addMessage('Hello, you added a postback?');
    });
  }});

controller.hears(['talk'],
                 'message_received',
                 (bot, message) => {
                   bot.startConversation(message, (err, convo) => {
                     convo.addQuestion('Say something',
                                       (res, con) => con.next());
                     convo.addQuestion('Ok bye', (res, con) => con.next());
                   });
                 });

facebook.start(botty, (err, webserver) => {
  // Add routes for your bot to listen on
  webserver.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.send('<h3>This is a bot</h3>');
  });
});

Documentation

• Deploying
• Environment variables
• Persistence
• Testing
• API Docs

License

BSD-2-Clause