Doubts for using other external modules on Agents

[tfspire]

Hi,

I'm a beginner on python so I have some doubts how should I use osbrain.

I want for example to have an agent that the only thing that he do is to be waiting for messages from a specific telegram channel using the Telethon module.

I know that I can set up new classes and passing them to the agents, but how can I pass the imports? Because I would need to import on the agents the Telethon module in order to use it.

Or do I need to modify the agent.py to work for my use case?

Thanks

[Peque]

Hi,

I would suggest you to carefully read through the osBrain documentation to understand how to work with it. Read at least the first 5 sections (from "About osBrain" until "Timers").

You do not need to modify agent.py to use external modules on agents.

For your use case:

• You probably want to start with a timer to check the Telegram channel periodically
• Alternatively, you may want to have a look at how to execute one-way calls to continuously read from the Telegram channel and generate events in the agent through the internal inproc://loopback socket
• You can always replace the agent's loop() method with yours, but then you would lose the ability to communicate with that agent as you would normally with other agents in the network.

Good luck with your project! :blush:

[tfspire]

Hi,

Thank you so much for your reply. I will read better because I checked before and didn't find how to use the external modules.

Regarding telegram, I already using telethon module that generates events when a new message is received, so I will just adapt the stuff that I already have to use with osbrain (it looks awesome!! )

Regard :)