I have an avatar on a website that is suppose to talk with user. It has speech-to-text (input) and text-to-speech (output). I want to use the botpress chatbot but I don't want to use the chatbox pop-up. I simply want a way to pass input into the bot and obtain its output. How can I do that?

@cuddly-pharmacist-28660 First of all, you can set up your Server.

Snowman has the server part right, but there isn't an API for having conversations with your bot (yet!)

@User Since there is no API, can I still use http request and response to achieve a similar effect?

Not really, no. While there is an API to send messages and another to look at responses, the issue is that there isn't a way to group them into converesations. So if all you're doing is one-off, question-answer style chatting with no need to conversational context or followup questions, then sure the current API is sufficient. But if you're looking for a way to have conversations with your bot via API, that feature is still on the way.

Can you please provide time estimation for when will such feature be available ?

We're aiming for end of August/early September

Thank you so much, We're waiting for this feature

thank you Gordy

yep this is the API reference here https://botpress.com/docs/api-documentation/#message