WHAT ARE WE GOING TO COVER? • Chatbot overview • Common use cases for chatbots • Current state of chatbots and Drupal • Our implementation • Demos • Future for chatbots and Drupal
THE CHATBOT MODULE • Drupal 8 • Forked from Whitehouse’s Facebook Messenger Bot module • It’s extensible through the Plugin API • Comes with 2 plugins: Facebook and Slack
EXTENDING THE CHATBOT MODULE • You will implement a plugin using Plugin API • Your message types • The service (i.e how to talk to your chat provider) • The workflow
FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS • There’s room for code refactoring • Add new message types • Integration to AI services (Amazon Lex / IBM Watson / Microsoft Luis / wit.ai / api.ai)
THANK YOU! WHAT DID YOU THINK? Locate this session at the DrupalCon Baltimore website: http://baltimore2017.drupal.org/schedule Take the survey https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ drupalconbaltimore https://goo.gl/9s1OiM