🤖 Frontend Framework to build 💬 message/chat bots ops in the 🌐 Browser or Command Line, no server required.

You can add new skills to bot via skills and extend its ability via addons. All with plain javascript. 👏

Saihubot's API is inspired by hubot's API, so a developer who has learned hubot-plugins could learn saihu-skills very quickly. ⚡

Check Online Demo

Or run the command bot without install

npx saihu npm saihu

• Chatbot works in multiple platforms, without server setup.
• Structure was inspired by hubot
  • Regex based message matching
  • Could write adapter to fully cooperate with your web UI
  • Could swap brain to support different backends
  • Provide skills(pluginn) architecture that able to expand functions
  • Can extend bot functionality by import addons
• Tiny size, easy to learn (the init version has just 80 lines that bundle with three skills)
• Plugin callbacks are extremely flexible; You can control in-page elements, execute the local command, fetch remote data, trigger remote actions...

Module	Version	Description	Doc
saihubot		core module	Doc
saihu		Sample Command line bot	Doc
Web samples	Online Demos

Adapters	Version	Description	Doc
saihubot-html-adapter		HTML	Doc
saihubot-react-redux-adapter		React + Redux	Doc
saihubot-cli-adapter		Command Line	Doc

Skills	Version	Description	Doc
saihubot-skill-search		Search engines	Doc
saihubot-skill-diagnostics		ping, echo, current time	Doc
saihubot-cli-skill-qrcode		generate qrcode	Doc

If you just want to try how the saihubot looks like, Check Online Demo

Clone the project with command

git clone https://github.com/gasolin/saihubot.git

Then run

npm build
npm start

or

npx http-server .

now you have a working bot in the browser!

Fork the project, edit index.html with Github editor, save it and see the result on https://[yourname].github.io/saihubot

Saihubot also provide Search skills, you can include it via skillsFile: ['skills/saihubot-search.js']

Check the Search Demo.

me: g saihubot
bot: Search saihubot via Google
me: google saihubot
bot: Search saihubot via Google
me: search saihubot
bot: Search saihubot via Google

Check the docs section.

Saihu(師傅) means master in Taiwanese, which people used to call the artisans. Saihubot's origin goal is to provide a code sample that makes learning hubot and its ES6 variant Webbybot easier; then I found Saihu is a great way to embed bot into anywhere browser can live with.

Saihubot use MIT License

Check ChangeLog