The easiest way to create a Wit.ai bot with Botpress

botpress install wit

The Wit.ai module should now be available in your bot UI

This module has two modes: Understanding (message API) and Stories (converse API).

This mode will inject understanding metadata inside incoming messages through the Wit.ai middleware.

Events will have a wit property populated with the extracted entities and the context.

Tip: Use this mode if you want to handle the conversation flow yourself and only want to extract entities from incoming text. This is great for programmers.

bp.hear({'wit.entities.intent[0].value': 'weather'}, (event, next) => {
  console.log('>> Weather')
  bp.messenger.sendText(event.user.id, 'Weather intent')
})

This mode will run your Wit.ai stories automatically given that you defined the Actions in botpress.

For more information about Actions and how they are run, make sure to read node-wit's documentation.

Tip: Use this mode if you created a conversation flow on Wit.ai's User Interface and want it to run automatically in your bot. This is great for non-programmers.

// Implement your Actions like this
bp.wit.actions['getWeather'] = request => {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    bp.logger.info('Get Weather called', request)
    // Do something here
    resolve(request.context)
  })
}

// You need to call this method once you are done implementing the Actions
bp.wit.reinitializeClient()

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botpress-wit is licensed under AGPL-3.0