Add example of running multiple bots on the same server #15

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3. dahlia commented on Nov 5, 2025

   

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   Thank you for your interest in BotKit! This is a great question.

   Currently, BotKit has a limitation where each server instance can only run one bot (one ActivityPub actor). This means that if you want to run multiple bots, you would need to:

   1. Run them on different domains/subdomains (e.g., bot1.example.com, bot2.example.com)
   2. Run separate server processes for each bot, each listening on different ports and behind a reverse proxy

   This is indeed a limitation we're aware of, and we plan to address this in a future version to allow multiple bots per server instance. However, there's no specific timeline for this feature yet.

   For now, if you need to run multiple bots, I'd recommend using a reverse proxy setup (like nginx or Caddy) to route different domains/paths to different bot processes. Would that work for your use case?

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4. dahlia commented on Dec 13, 2025

   

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   We've created #16 to track the design and implementation of multi-bot support. The proposed approach introduces a new createInstance() function that can host multiple bots, while keeping the existing createBot() API for single-bot use cases.

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9. dahlia commented on Jul 7, 2026

   

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   BotKit finally has multiple bots per instance (#16). It will ship with the next minor release, BotKit 0.5.0.

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