<- but don't trust this badge just yet (see issue #23)

wat?

• The dankest chat bot in all the land, currently returns image searches from:
  • imgur
  • giphy
  • google images
• Can also perform these amazing feats of bot-ness:
  • Roll dice
  • Choose an item from a list, for the indicisive bot user
  • Play cards against humanity(!)
  • Play a crappy battle game
  • Be sassy AF

how?

• hipchat webhooks + python + magic
• runs on heroku or anywhere you want to run python

why?

• because we could

setup

• if you don't have the python virtualenv package, install it: pip install virtualenv

• clone + go into dankBot repo directory: git clone https://github.com/gelstudios/dankBot && cd dankBot

• create a virtual env inside the dankbot repo: virtualenv venv

• load virtual env: source venv/bin/activate

• setup your environment by editing dankbot.env.dist, save it as dankbot.env

  • imgur_id='your_imgur_client_id' # <- imgur key goes here
  • imgur_secret='your_imgur_client_secret' # <- imgur secret goes here
  • google_api_key='your_google_api_key' # <- google api key goes here
  • google_cseid='your_google_cseid' # <- google cseid goes here
  • DEBUG=True # <- controls debug console logging (default is False)
  • NOMEME=True # <- controls meme search during battle function
  • AUTH_TOKEN='your_hipchat_auth_token' # <- dankbot needs its own hipchat auth token for CaH DM's
  • REDIS_HOST='localhost' # <- change this if not using a local redis instance
  • REDIS_PORT=63790 # <- redis port number
  • REDIS_AUTH='your_redis_auth_string' # <- redis password goes here

• load the env file: source dankbot.env

• start the bot: python hipchat.py

• in another shell, run the tests: ./test.sh

who?

• lovingly crafted these fine folks:
  • @gelstudios
  • @emenym
  • @arichards611
  • @jrg4017

todo

• Fix open issues
• Create a driver interface for different chat service providers
• Slack driver for above interface
• a basic REST api (maybe)