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Botkit vs Hubot: What are the differences?
What is Botkit? Building Blocks for Building Slack Bots. Botkit designed to ease the process of designing and running useful, creative bots that live inside Slack, Facebook Messenger and other messaging platforms.
What is Hubot? A customizable life embetterment robot. 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.
Botkit belongs to "Chatbot Platforms & Tools" category of the tech stack, while Hubot can be primarily classified under "ChatOps".
Botkit and Hubot are both open source tools. It seems that Hubot with 15.1K GitHub stars and 3.51K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Botkit with 9.3K GitHub stars and 2.03K GitHub forks.
CircleCI, Keen, and 500px are some of the popular companies that use Hubot, whereas Botkit is used by emojination, Taggun, and BubbleIQ. Hubot has a broader approval, being mentioned in 53 company stacks & 21 developers stacks; compared to Botkit, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.
Hi, does anyone have recommendations for a chatbot framework? I am currently using Botpress, and I am not happy with it. The upside is: They pretty much have everything you can ask for in a bot solution, but the issue is: They did nothing right, the documentation is terrible, and you have this feeling of it falling apart at any time, which is what actually happened once.
My ideal solution would have:
- Support for Messenger and web (should either have a website chat plugin or straightforward integration with a different one)
- A visual builder (for none tech team members) | This is not a hard requirement though
- A slick DX for building simple things like API calls or more advanced stuff.
- We currently only have a "click bot," so no crazy NLP features required, but in the future a requirement
What I do not want: - I do not want a solution where "someone else" builds the bot for me
Dialogflow includes:
- OOTB integration with Messenger and you may use the Web Demo integration provided to embed it to your website. For Messenger, you even have some responses such as image responses, card responses and for those that are not available you can use custom payload.
- It has a very nice visual builder which can be easily used by non-technical builders.
- Fulfillment allows you to easily integrate your APIs.
Coursera has a very nice two-week course to learn how to use it.
Pros of Botkit
- Relatively easy to understand and help/active community3
Pros of Hubot
- Easy setup14
- Extendable13
- Slack integration12
- Free11
- HipChat integration9
- Great adapters to popular chats1
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