Installation

Getting started with Botpress is very easy. We build and distribute binaries of the latest stable version and we also have nightly builds of the master branch on Github.

Download

The latest stable binaries are available for download here. Alternatively, you may find all the versions and nightly builds in our public S3 Bucket.

To install Botpress, simply unzip the file you download somewhere on your computer. Make sure that your computer has at least:

512mb of RAM
1gb of available disk space
A 64 bits architecture
The right to read/write to the directory and subdirectories where Botpress is located

Starting Botpress

To start Botpress, all you have to do is double click on the bp file in the directory you extracted Botpress to.

Alternatively, you can also start it from the terminal:

> ./bp

The first time you run Botpress, the built-in modules take some time to install. This will only happen the first time you run Botpress, subsequent runs will be much faster.

Once the modules are installed and loaded, you should see something similar to the screenshot below.

First Run

Enabling or disabling modules

Modules are already bundled with the server binary for the moment. They are bundled in zip files in the folder modules. It is possible to enable or disable them by opening the file data/global/botpress.config.json in a text editor and setting the value to true or false

"modules": [
  ...
  {
    "location": "MODULES_ROOT/module_name",
    "enabled": true
  }
]