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Add a bot or integration

Bots and integrations are features that are accessible to all members of an organization.

Add a bot

  1. Go to the Your bots tab of the Settings page.

  2. On this page, under the Add a new bot view, enter the bot type, a name, an email, and optionally an avatar for your bot. Then click the Create bot button to create your bot.

    Bots page

  3. An entry such as the following should appear above the Add a new bot view, confirming the creation of your bot.

    Example bot

  4. You now have access to your bot's API key and API configuration file (.zuliprc) which you will need for integrations that you would like to use with this bot. You can click on the download () icon to download your .zuliprc file.

Bot types

You can create three types of bots:

Bot types

  • Generic bot: A generic bot can send and receive messages. Choose this type if you want to:

  • Incoming webhook: The API keys for such bots are limited to only sending messages and can't receive messages. Thus, this bot type lessens the security risks associated with exposing such API keys to third-party services. Choose this type if you want to:

    • deploy one of our integrations.
    • develop your own integration that posts to Zulip. Note that Incoming Webhook integrations can only be developed in the Zulip repository.

  • Outgoing webhook: Bots of this type are the same as a Generic bot, except Outgoing webhooks bots have an extra field for the Endpoint URL of the third-party service being requested. Outgoing webhook bots send POST requests to this Endpoint URL. Choose this type if you want to:

    • make Zulip post messages to a URL.
    • deploy Zulip's botserver. This is the default way of deploying bots used in production.

Add an integration

The Integrations page offers a complete list of all the integrations currently supported by Zulip. To add an integration to your organization, select the integration that you would like to use from the list and follow the installation instructions accordingly.