Chatbox development continues to be a rapidly growing element on many platforms with some posts suggesting "the chatbot market is projected to account for $1.23 billion by the year 2025".

I'm wondering if anyone can steer me in the right direction. I am wondering if there are any initiatives for chatbox development similar to what has been done for drupal 8/9 using Google Dialogflow:

https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal_chatbot

https://bitcharms.blogspot.com/2018/08/chat-bots-giant-step-in-transform...

https://www.specbee.com/blogs/building-chatbots-drupal-using-dialogflow

Or if people think there is a better approach.

Thank you,

Izzy

Comments

If you’re planning on building this from scratch, you might look at how the seven module handles SMS/external APIs as a reference for the connection side. Integrating Dialogflow via a custom block or layout would probably be the cleanest way to do it in Backdrop. Let us know if you start a GitHub repo for it, I'd love to follow the progress!