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This article discusses connecting bots to XML and JSON web services, to let your bot access the world.

It uses the AIML SRAIX tag with a "service" of "XML" or "JSON" to call web services. Or uses the Bot Libre "Self" JavaScript dialect.

Example,

Code

<aiml>
  <category>
    <pattern>Guess where I live</pattern>
    <template>What is your postal code?</template>
  </category>
  <category>
    <pattern>*</pattern>
    <that>What is your postal code</that>
    <template>You live in <sraix service="XML" hint="code/name">http://api.geonames.org/postalCodeSearch?maxRows=1&username=demo&postalcode=<star/></sraix>.</template>
  </category>
</aiml>

https://www.botlibre.com/forum-post?id=13020078

Also shows how to scrape info from HTML pages, and post to Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, email, etc.