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How to add an AI chatbot to Koha

How to add your custom trained AI chatbot to your Koha library website.

You want to embed your custom trained AI support agent in your Koha library website OPAC page. Here’s how to add an AI support agent to Koha with AI Chatbot.

Koha is a free and open-source Integrated Library System (ILS) designed to help libraries of all sizes manage their collections, cataloging, circulation, and patron services. It’s known for being relatively easy to customize and adaptable to various library needs.

Website URL: Koha

Add your AI support agent to your Koha website

A bit of information:

OPAC stands for Online Public Access Catalog, which is an online database of materials held by a library or group of libraries. All references to OPAC means this is what the online user (visitor or registered patron) will see, thus when you add the AI support agent to the OPAC preferences, it will be available on all the pages displayed for online users.

In AI Chatbot

Please note:

Koha doesn’t allow the standard AI Chatbot snippet to be added to the OPACUserJS value, only the JavaScript function code snippet. In the next step where get the JS snippet for your AI support agent, we will only copy the actual function code part of the snippet.

Log into your AI Chatbot account and select your agent from the dropdown menu at the top, click on the Install Agent section in the sidebar, select the Javascript tab and then copy the function code part of the Javascript snippet (DO NOT click on Copy Code!!). You will use this later when we insert your snippet.

You will then end up with the following (The url.js part will be your specific code):

(function(){
	d=document;
	s=d.createElement("script");
	s.src="https://sitespeak.ai/chatbots/url.js";
	s.async=1;
	d.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(s);
})();