Introduction

The open-source package, pybotframework, provides an easy way to create intelligent Python-based chatbots. It leverages Microsoft’s Bot Framework REST APIs for easy deployment and connection to channels like Slack, Skype, FB Messenger and more. We aimed it to have rich dialogs by providing gateways to custom trained machine learning models and dialog logic.

It includes a great development experience due to its compatibility with an open source channel emulator. It also uses the familiar web microframework, Flask, for the web app component that can be customized later on. For authentication it leverages Flask-OIDC.

Currently the project is Python 3 compatible, with Python 2.7 support pending demand.