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5: ❗ New! RedBot 2.0 is out, see the changelog
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16: With RedBot you can visually build a full featured chat bot for Telegram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber and Slack with Node-RED. Almost no coding skills required.
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18: > Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.
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26: ## Documentation
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28: 1. RedBot documentation
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35: ## Getting started
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37: RedBot requires Node.js >= 18 and Node-RED >= 2.0.
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58: The next step is to create a chat bot, I recommend to use Telegram since the setup is easier (Telegram allows polling to receive messages, so it's not necessary to create a https certificate).
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75: ## Credits
76: * Inspired by the Karl-Heinz Wind work node-red-contrib-telegram
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79: ## The MIT License
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81: Copyright (c) 2026 Guidone
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83: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
84: of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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