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Automate Your Life / Work With CSML and Zapier, Integromat and IFTTT

Automation solutions are some of the most powerful tools that you can use in a chatbot to increase the productivity, efficiency and value of your chatbot. Let's have a look at how to leverage the power of Zapier, Integromat and IFTTT in your next chatbot!

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Launching CSML Studio v2.0 🎉

CSML Studio is evolving! We are launching the v2.0 today. Discover why we are making the change to a paid subscription format, and what this means for you.

Case Study

Create a Suggestion Box Chatbot With a Workplace Group

Discover how to create a post in a Workplace group with content from your CSML chatbot!

Case Study

Sending emails with CSML and Sendgrid

Since the very beginning of the internet, sending emails has always been a core feature for all online services. Today, chatbot are no exceptions, they also need to send emails to users. Today we're going to go through the (short and easy) process of sending an email with CSML and

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Q1 2021 - CSML Features Roundup

Let's go back to some of the most important features launched in the first quarter of 2021!

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We're launching CSML Playground!

Try CSML Playground and support us for our launch on Product Hunt!

Case Study

How to Give Super Powers to Your Forms With Chatbots

A few years ago, chatbots started to become more and more popular and today is time for chatbots to make better forms, much like website did a few years ago.

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What's New in CSML v1.5.0

Let's have a look at all the cool new features in v1.5.0 of CSML chatbot engine!

Case Study

Solving Chatbot-Based User Authentication 🔑: Introducing NoPass.me

Making sure that a user is who they say they are is a very common problem for web-based chatbots. NoPass.me addresses this problem with a simple and secure approach.

Education

Top 5 Advices to Get Started With Programming

Learning a new skill is challenging for many reasons. First of all, we start investing time in something we know only very little about and it can take days, weeks or even months before we start to understand what it takes to be "good" at it. Since it takes a

Case Study

Create Reusable Chatbot Templates For Your SaaS Business With Strapi

Learn how to write scalable and dynamic CSML code, and launch a chatbot SaaS business with a custom chatbot template and a Strapi backend!

Getting Started

How To Add a Chatbot To Your WordPress Website

Find out how to integrate your chatbot to your Wordpress website in three simple steps!

Apps

Generate More Leads For Your Livestorm Webinars With a Chatbot

Chatbots and Webinars are two natural ways to generate more leads for your business. Find out how to use both solutions together with this Livestorm x CSML Chatbot!

Apps

How To Send Emails From Your Chatbot

Make your chatbot more useful by adding an emailing integration to communicate with humans!

Write a Custom Ruby Function for CSML

Code your own custom function in Ruby and use it in your CSML chatbot

Getting Started

Write Custom Javascript Functions For CSML

Discover how to use CSML External Functions to augment your code with custom javascript code!

Getting Started

How to Install a Self-Hosted CSML Engine on Ubuntu 18.04

Learn how to install a self-hosted CSML Engine instance on your own linux server.

What Is a Botathon and How We Use It for Team Building

We, at Clevy, have been building tools to create chatbots for years. Every single person in the company is in charge of either developing these tools, and selling them. Among other technologies, Clevy is the company behind CSML, the programming language to which this blog is dedicated. CSML was designed

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Clevy Launches AWS Contact Center Intelligence Solution

Clevy, vendor of automation solutions for contact centers and multi-channel chatbot and callbot software, announces its participation as a launch partner for the global expansion of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions.

Education

From Building Chatbots To Becoming a Developer

When we first designed CSML, we wanted it to be a very high-level programming language with a very simple goal: making it easy to develop rich chatbots. Little did we know that within months, not only developers would use CSML but also non-developers would get into coding thanks to CSML!

Thoughts & ideas

8 Alternatives to Facebook Messenger for Your Chatbot

This article was written on the 6th of December, a few days before Facebook Messenger's Big Depreciation of European Chatbots. For more information about Facebook's decision, read this article. Choosing the right channel for your chatbot is an important decision. Many factors can influence this choice: where do your users

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Help, I Need to Move my Chatbot Away From Facebook Messenger Because of the New EU Privacy Rules!

Chatfuel users, Manychat users, chatbot developers, agencies: open-source can save you!

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Important: new EU privacy rules impact for Messenger chatbot developers

Learn more about Facebook Messenger's surprise, massive API update on Dec. 16th and how to prepare in advance

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CSML Is 1 Year Old 🎉

Today we're going to look back on the past twelve months and see what CSML and its community of developers achieved in a year.

Get your Chatbot to Speak more than 50 Languages with Amazon Translate

One of the great strengths of chatbots is their ability to adapt to each and every user. Chatbots can remember user details, fetch information from third-party API, or ask questions to the user. Being able to speak and understand the user's language is surely on the top of the list