Program-Y

For full documentation, tutorials and other helpful information, see the Programy-Y Wiki

Program-Y is an Python 3.x implementation of an AIML 2.0 Specification, but its much much more than that. It is a complete greenfield implementation of the entire AIML 2.0 spec in Python 3. it has extensive unit tests coverage (>85% at all times) and a full suite of documentation to get you up and running, learn AIML and build you own ChatBots

Programy-Y is fully cross plaform, running on

• Mac OSX
• Linux
• Windows

100% Support for all AIML 2.0 Tags plus all Pandora bot ones they never documented

• Full support for al AIML 2.0 Tags
• RDF Support through addtriple, deletetriple, select, uniq and uniq
• List processing with First and Rest
• Advanced learn support including resetlearn and resetlearnf
• Full Out Of Band Support
• Full embedded XML/HTML Support
• Dynamic Sets, Maps and Variables

Program-Y is extremely extensible, you can

• Add you own AIML tags
• Add you own Spelling Checker
• Support User Authorisation
• Support User Authentication
• Add your own Out Out Band (OOB) tags
• Add Dynamic Sets in Python
• Add Dynamic Maps in Python
• Add Dynamic Variables in Python
• Run a variety of clients, including
  • Console
  • REST
  • Web Chat
  • Twitter
  • Google Hangouts (XMPP)
  • SMS ( coming soon )
  • Facebook ( coming )
  • Slack ( coming soon )

Program-Y comes with a base set of grammars for various industry sectors, including

• Energy Industry
• Banking
• Telecoms
• Weather
• Surveys
• News Feeds
• Maps

Program-Y Ships with a number of Bots preconfigured

• Alice2 - The original Alice Chatbot updated for AIML 2.0
• Rosie - A starter chat bot from the inventors of AIML
• Professor - A very knowledgable ChatBot with lots of answers
• Y-Bot - My own personal bot that I am building to support AIML development

The project is maintained via a Kanban Board. Here you can see a list of the active tasks plus the items in the backlog that we'll be adding next

All issues are maintained in the Program-Y Issue Tracker

For more details of what AIML is, head over to the

• AIML 2.0 Spec
• Pandora Bots