botas 0.3.18

Lightweight library for building Microsoft Bot Framework bots - Python

botas

A lightweight, multi-language library for building Microsoft Teams bots — this is the core Python package.

For zero-boilerplate FastAPI hosting, see botas-fastapi.

Installation

pip install botas

Quick start (with FastAPI)

from botas import BotApplication
from botas_fastapi import bot_auth_dependency
from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI, Request

bot = BotApplication()

@bot.on("message")
async def on_message(ctx):
    await ctx.send(f"You said: {ctx.activity.text}")

app = FastAPI()

@app.post("/api/messages", dependencies=[Depends(bot_auth_dependency())])
async def messages(request: Request):
    body = await request.body()
    await bot.process_body(body.decode())
    return {}

Or use the higher-level botas-fastapi wrapper for a simpler setup:

from botas_fastapi import BotApp

app = BotApp()

@app.on("message")
async def on_message(ctx):
    await ctx.send(f"You said: {ctx.activity.text}")

app.start()

API

BotApplication

The core bot class — web-framework-agnostic.

Method	Description
on(type, handler)	Register a handler for an activity type (also works as a @decorator)
on_invoke(name, handler)	Register a handler for an invoke activity by name (also works as a @decorator)
use(middleware)	Add a middleware to the turn pipeline (runs in registration order)
process_body(body)	Process a raw JSON body string

Authentication options

BotApplicationOptions fields (also resolved from environment variables):

Option	Env variable	Description
client_id	CLIENT_ID	Azure AD application (bot) ID
client_secret	CLIENT_SECRET	Azure AD client secret
tenant_id	TENANT_ID	Azure AD tenant ID (default: common)
managed_identity_client_id	MANAGED_IDENTITY_CLIENT_ID	Managed identity client ID
token_factory	—	Custom async token factory (scope, tenant_id) -> str

Documentation

• Full documentation site
• Full feature specification
• Architecture overview
• Infrastructure setup

License

MIT