Create a Chatbot

The chat.smarterbot.ai Creation API provides functionality to create a new chatbot by sending a POST request to the /chat/Chatbot/Add endpoint.

Endpoint​ #

Request URL: https://chat.smarterbot.ai/chat/Chatbot/Add

Method: POST

Request Headers​ #

The API request must include the following headers:

• Authorization: <Your-Secret-Key> – string, required – The secret key for authenticating the API request
• Content-Type: application/json – string, required – The content type of the request payload (must be application/json)

Request Body​ #

The request body should contain the following parameters:

{
  // string, required - The time zone of the chatbot (e.g., Asia/Shanghai, America/New_York)
  "timeZone": "Asia/Shanghai",
  // integer, required - Must be 0 for generic chatbot
  "type": 0
}

• timeZone – string, required – The time zone of the chatbot (e.g., Asia/Shanghai, America/New_York)
• type – integer, required – Must be 0 for generic chatbot

Example Request​ #

JavaScript (Fetch API) #

const res = await fetch('https://chat.smarterbot.ai/chat/Chatbot/Add', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
  "Authorization": "<Your-Secret-Key>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
},
  body: JSON.stringify({
  "timeZone": "Asia/Shanghai",
  "type": 0
})
});

const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

Python (Requests Library) #

import requests
import json

url = 'https://chat.smarterbot.ai/chat/Chatbot/Add'
headers = {
    "Authorization": "<Your-Secret-Key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}
data = {
  "timeZone": "Asia/Shanghai",
  "type": 0
}

response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data)
data = response.json()
print(data)

cURL #

curl 'https://chat.smarterbot.ai/chat/Chatbot/Add' \
  -X POST \
  -H 'Authorization: <Your-Secret-Key>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"timeZone":"Asia/Shanghai","type":0}'

HTTP Request #

POST /chat/Chatbot/Add HTTP/1.1
Host: chat.smarterbot.ai
Authorization: <Your-Secret-Key>
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "timeZone": "Asia/Shanghai",
  "type": 0
}

Response​ #

The API response will be a JSON object with the following structure:

{
  // string - The unique identifier (ID) of the created chatbot
  "Data": "3254a9d0424c4806b9ea3d0763xxxxxx",
  // string - API version
  "Version": "1.0.0",
  // boolean - Operation success status
  "Success": true,
  // integer - HTTP status code
  "Code": 200,
  // string - Error message if any
  "Message": ""
}

Error Handling​ #

If the request fails, you should: 1. Check the HTTP status code for network-level errors 2. Examine the `Code` and `Message` fields in the response for business-level errors 3. The `Message` field will contain detailed error information