Swift Chatbots for Fun! and Profit

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Builds chatbots as server-side Swift REST services using Vapor + Heroku, exposing a callback endpoint that receives Messenger JSON and replies via the Messenger webhook or push endpoints. Shows concrete examples: an echo bot, a translator that proxies translation APIs, an OCR-enabled vocabulary helper, and a scheduled xkcd fetcher using the xkcd API with persisted metadata for search. Recommends solving one or two tasks well, and delegates heavy NLP to Python microservices or cloud APIs, saying robust NLP is ~2–3 years away.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:46Chatbot craze
3. 1:06Chatbot history
4. 1:50Why Swift
5. 2:34Things to consider
6. 3:01What is Chatbot
7. 4:41Behind the Scenes
8. 5:59Endpoints
9. 6:26Custom GUI
10. 6:56Vapor
11. 7:37Route Swift
12. 8:58JSON
13. 9:25XKCD
14. 9:52API endpoints
15. 10:26What is a good chatbot
16. 12:53Natural language processing frameworks
17. 14:11Outro

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