Bot Framework markdown support by channel

When developing your Bot Framework bot you want to be sure exactly how your messages are rendering on the different channels that you enable.  Plain text messages can look pretty boring, so you might decide to use markdown to create richer text messages. If you are new to markdown, have a quick read here, then the rest of this article will make more sense.  Below is an extract taken from the BotBuilder documentation which describes the markdown supported by the Bot Framework itself, however it's important to note that not all channels themselves support markdown:

Bot Framework markdown support

Sample Bot message

So how does each channel render the text then?  Let's consider the following message using markdown:

# Markdown test
**The** *quick* ~~brown~~ fox `jumped`

1.over

2.the

* lazy
* dogs.

A hyperlink for good measure: [Link](https://bing.com)
and now a random picture of a duck 

Channel markdown findings to date:

Channel markdown screenshots:

And now see how that message gets rendered on ALL of the current Bot Framework supported channels:

[caption id="attachment_735" align="alignnone" width="169"] Email[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_675" align="alignnone" width="169"] Facebook Messenger[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_675" align="alignnone" width="169"] GroupMe[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_685" align="alignnone" width="169"] Kik[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_705" align="alignnone" width="193"] Skype[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_715" align="alignnone" width="169"] Slack[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_716" align="alignnone" width="169"] Telegram[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_716" align="alignnone" width="169"] Twilio[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_735" align="alignnone" width="180"] Web Chat[/caption]

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 29, 2017
  Any plans to support Viber Channel ?
  • Anonymous
    January 31, 2017
    You can explore the DirectLine channel, but would have to implement your own custom adaptor.
    • Anonymous
      August 15, 2017
      Update: You can take a look at this repo: https://github.com/Viber/viber-bot-node and the corresponding npm package for node here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/botbuilder-viber
• Anonymous
  September 14, 2017
  what about facebook today? article date is since last year
  • Anonymous
    September 15, 2017
    This article was written before the bot framework team updated their documentation. You can now use the Channel Inspector available here: https://docs.botframework.com/en-us/channel-inspector/channels/Facebook?f=Markdown&e=example1
• Anonymous
  October 23, 2017
  Is there any markdwon for embedded video (youtube or the linke)
  • Anonymous
    October 26, 2017
    For markdown you could can link to the video: message.Text = @"[![Introducing the new Surface Book 2](https://img.youtube.com/vi/HCYCvREMcCM/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCYCvREMcCM 'Click to open')";You can also checkout the VideoCard here: https://docs.botframework.com/en-us/node/builder/chat-reference/classes/_botbuilder_d_.videocard.html eg: var vc = new VideoCard() { Image = new ThumbnailUrl("https://img.youtube.com/vi/HCYCvREMcCM/0.jpg"), Media = new List() { new MediaUrl("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCYCvREMcCM") } }; message.Attachments = new List { vc.ToAttachment() };