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minhkhang1795 / xkcdBot

A bot in NodeJs feeding xkcd comics to a GroupMe conversation
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Consider using MeBots to allow users to add this bot to chats automatically #1

Open ErikBoesen opened 5 years ago

ErikBoesen commented 5 years ago

Hey there! I'm Erik, the developer of another GroupMe bot. Motivated by some frustrations I had with the platform during that development process, I recently developed MeBots, which is a platform/API for building GroupMe bots more easily. It's designed to abstract away some of the headaches of maintaining GroupMe bots so that your job as a developer will be a little easier. For example, it has a whole built-in panel for adding and removing bots from different groups, and then it stores all the bot IDs and stuff in a database for you so you won't need to worry about keeping track of that data; you can just get what you need through a web API. Also, other people can add the bot to their own groups if you so choose. I think your bot could be of available to more people if it's on that marketplace and can be easily added by non-technical users. That way, anyone who wants XKCD in their chats could simply click a couple buttons and it'd be added to their chats too!

I've written up some documentation for how to integrate with the API here: http://mebots.co/documentation. I wrote some more specific documentation for this bot's language in a NodeJS package for easy integration with the API, which you can find here, and there's a complete bot implementation here! I'm happy to make a PR integrating with the platform as well.

Let me know if you're interested!

minhkhang1795 commented 5 years ago

@ErikBoesen Hi Erik, this is very interesting. How can I help?

ErikBoesen commented 5 years ago

The best way you can help is by getting this bot onto the platform! I made another xkcdbot (which is not working yet) so you can call it xkcd or something like that. The documentation is at http://mebots.co/documentation and from that page I link a lot of resources that you can look at for how to integrate with a bot written in JavaScript.