Pandorabots

Browser Integration

Using the pb-html package, you can now easily deploy an application which provides a web interface for chatting with your chatbot.

If you’re familiar with the now deprecated AIML 1.0 system, you’ll probably remember how easy it was to publish your chatbot to a webpage…

Connecting your bot to Twilio

We’ve had a lot of interest recently from users wishing to connect their Pandorabot to messaging services like Twilio. In today’s post, we’ll take a look at how the Twilio platform works with apps, and how it can play with the Pandorabots API.

On Chatbots

Chatbots, historically maligned as “weak AI,” are finally transforming from ugly duckling to beautiful swan. According to recent predictions, chatbots (#ConvComm) will be big. Like, Google-killing big, heralding the end of apps and search as we know it — or so proclaimed Forbes and The Wall Street Journal.

Dealing with Sensitive Data

Say you work in an industry like healthcare or financial services that typically deals with the treatment of “sensitive” end-user data. You want to build a conversational interface for your application, but you have concerns about using cloud services that might involve sending…

Pairing your Bot with an Avatar from Media Semantics

Media Semantic’s Character Hosting allows you to connect your bot to an animated cartoon or realistic character very easily.

You will need Pandorabots credentials app_id and user_key found on your application’s…

Introducing Anonymous Talk API

If you’ve developed your bot to remember conversational elements, and you’d like to have it remember them past an active session with your end-users but don’t want to maintain any kind of end-user management, the new Anonymous Talk API can solve that issue!

Putting your bot on #Slack

The Hubot project headed by Github is a highly extensible bot application used to automate and simplify development tasks. Hubot acts as a member of a chatroom, reading and posting messages of its own.

Introducing the Pandorabots CLI

While we already offer a number of tools for working with the Pandorabots API, we are proud to announce the newest member of our open-source arsenal: the Pandorabots CLI. This tool is designed to let you manage and interact with your bots straight from the command line.

AIML Use Cases: Part 1

If you’re not watching repositories on Pandorabots on Github yet, now is the time to start —

A number of free SDKs for the Pandorabots API are available in many popular languages including:

• Java