IBM Watson is a brand that includes a set of products and services, made famous by its Jeopardy prowess. Watson includes a chatbot platform and conversational API.

You can now request and access a user's location from a Facebook Messenger bot.

Facebook Messenger can send you the user's location in longitude and latitude coordinates using a "quick reply" option.

We released Bot Libre 5.3 this week.
This release included many enhancements including:

• improvements in the website user interface and documentation

We released Bot Libre 5.1 this week.
Bot Libre 5.1 includes several new features including Timers and Bot Services, as well as many other enhancements and fixes.

• Timers - Schedule and run background tasks for your bot, every hour, or every day. This allows your bot to manage mailing lists, message users on social media, scrape website data, generates reports, and perform other scheduled tasks.

We have released Bot Libre 5.0!

The worlds most advanced bot platform just got better. Bot Libre 5.0 is a free and open source platform for developing and hosting bots. Bot Libre 5.0 includes support for chat bots, virtual agents, virtual assistants, social media bots, live chat, animated avatars, and speech. Bot Libre supports bots for the web, mobile, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, Slack, email, SMS, IRC, and new platforms are being added every month.

The website was updated today.

Some of the recent updates include:

It is no longer sufficient for a business to only connect with their customers on their website. Customers now use a variety of different messaging and social media platforms, and expect to be able to connect with businesses through social media. If your business is not on Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, or other platforms you are missing engaging with your customers.

We release Bot Libre 4.6.2 this week.

The release included many new enhancements and improvements including:

Bot Libre now supports integrating with XML and JSON web services, HTML scraping, and access to Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, email, and other services. From our scripting languages Self, and AIML you can now access any web service that returns XML or JSON data. You can also scrape information from HTML web pages, and send emails, tweets, Facebook posts, Telegram posts, and more.

Web Services

We released Bot Libre 4.4 today.

Bot Libre 4.4 includes new support for connecting bots to SMS text messaging, for accessing XML, JSON, and HTML web services, and accessing Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, and email.

Keeping up with social media and keeping your online community engaged can be a time consuming task. Through Bot Libre you can now automate your Facebook presence with your own Facebook Messenger bot. Any Bot Libre bot can be connected to a Facebook Messenger page account. The bot will reply to your users questions in real-time using the responses of script you have trained your bot with.

We released our 4.3.6 update today.
The update includes several new features and enhancements including support for Telegram bots, and initial support for Facebook Messenger bots.

The website was updated with Bot Libre 4.1 this week.

The update includes new Facebook support, as well as many fixes and minor enhancements.

Our Twitter bot server has been updated to our 3.1 version.

This includes many enhancements, including our Facebook automation support.

The website was updated today.

The Facebook automation support was improved.

Keeping up with social media and keeping your online community engaged can be a time consuming task. Through Bot Libre you can now automate your Facebook presence with your own Facebook bot. Any Bot Libre bot can be connected to a Facebook account or Facebook page. The bot will manage the Facebook account or page, checking timeline status updates, replying to page posts, auto posting your blog posts or RSS feed, and auto posting timed or generated posts.

The website was updated today. The update included several enhancements and fixes, including new support for importing knowledge from Wikidata.

Wikidata

Initial support for importing data from Wikidata. Wikidata is a free knowledge base, part of the Wikimedia/Wikipedia project. The support mirrors our current Freebase support, in anticipation of Google shutting down Freebase.

The website was update with a preview of our Facebook automation support.

This support is still experimental at this stage, as we are waiting for permissions approval from Facebook. The current support will let you connect a bot to a Facebook account or Facebook page. The bot will be able to read and respond to wall posts, auto post from an RSS feed, and auto post from a set of posts, Self formulas, or AIML templates.