# botman/botman

A framework agnostic PHP library to build chat bots

Repository: https://github.com/botman/botman
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/botman
Homepage: https://botman.io
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: chatbot, botman, bot-framework, chatbot-framework, php, bot
Last push: 2026-04-03T05:14:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 57/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 75, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3680, "days_push": 152, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6161, forks 814 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:36.752026+00:00)

## What it is
BotMan is a framework-agnostic PHP library for building chatbots that work across multiple messaging platforms like Slack, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, and Amazon Alexa. It provides an expressive hears/reply/ask syntax, conversation management, and pluggable drivers so one codebase can serve many messengers.

## Use cases
- build a chatbot in php
- create a slack bot with php
- one chatbot for multiple messaging platforms
- add a telegram bot to an existing php app
- build a facebook messenger bot
- handle bot conversations and follow-up questions in php
- add a chat widget to my website

## When to choose
- you're a PHP developer building bots for Slack, Telegram, Messenger, or other messengers
- you want one bot codebase that works across multiple messaging services
- you need conversational flows (ask/reply) with a simple expressive API
- you want to embed a bot into an existing PHP application or Laravel project

## When to avoid
- your stack is not PHP
- you need modern LLM/agent-based chatbot features rather than rule-based messaging
- you require drivers for platforms not covered by the available BotMan drivers
- you need a framework with very recent active development and cutting-edge features

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: chatbot, webhook, middleware, nlp, testing
- domain: chatbots, messaging-platforms, web-development
- platform: php, self-hosted
- tags: bot-framework, messaging-drivers, framework-agnostic, conversations, slack, telegram, facebook-messenger, laravel, automation, web-server

## Member repositories
- botman/botman (main) score 57

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:36.752026+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:47:28.543924+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/botman/botman (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:36.752026+00:00, sha b91233ec6d18)
  - homepage: https://botman.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:44:17.162070+00:00, sha f2c71e216256)
  - site_page: https://botman.io/2.0/welcome (fetched 2026-08-29T08:44:17.171218+00:00, sha 12a3359aa364)
  - site_page: https://botman.io/2.0 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:44:17.173318+00:00, sha 26a391140ff0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.