botkitwit

BotKitWit-TS

BotKitWit is an alternative, typescript, version (up to date) of https://github.com/howdyai/botkit-middleware-witai

Compatibility with:

• Node-Wit ^5.0.0

Use Wit.ai's natural language tools in your Botkit-powered Bot!

This middleware plugin for Botkit allows you to seamlessly integrate Wit.ai natural language intent APIs into your Botkit bot.

Wit.ai provides a service that uses machine learning to help developers handle natural language input. The Wit API receives input from the user, and translates it into one or more "intents" which map to known actions or choices. The power of Wit is that it can continually be trained to understand more and more responses without changing the underlying bot code!

Setup

Create a Wit application here. Then, set up and train at least one entity.

Add botkitwit as a dependency to your Botkit bot!

npm install --save botkitwit

Enable the middleware:

let config: IConfig = { token: 'WIT_ACCESS_TOKEN', minimum_confidence: 0.5 }
let wit = new BotKitWit(config)

controller.middleware.receive.use(wit.receive);

controller.hears(['wit_entity_1', 'wit_entity_2'],'direct_message',wit.hears,function(bot, message) {

    // ...
    // message.text         (your message)
    // message.response     (WIT's response)
    bot.reply(message, message.text);
});

For a full example see example_bot.ts.template