ENS chatbot

[Legogris]

Status Hackathon Submission

Description: A bot (but currently more like a dapp) allowing easy participation and initiation of auctions for ENS domain names. GitHub repo: https://github.com/Legogris/ensbot/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUtxNbbs0jU

Team Members:

Preferred name: Jeff Github handle: @jefflau Slack Username: @jefflau

Preferred Name: Legogris Github Handle: @legogris Slack Username: @legogris

Our original ambition was to make a pure, client-side only chatbot. Due to restrictions and snags, we had to add in dapp-components to make it work. Interfacing directly with the ENS contracts on Ropsten.

Currently working:

• Checking status of domain name
• Initiating auctions for unclaimed ENS names
• Placing bids in active auctions
• Revealing bids for placed bids

Challenges faced:

• Unable to use local testrpc for chatbot
• webView and bridgedWebview as doesn't render when used as previews for commands
• No eventloop for bots (so no setTimeout, no AJAX requests)
• sendMessage not working initially
• No localstorage to remember parameters
• Android bridgedWebview doesn't send Accept header, which makes webpackdevserver's historyFallback fallthrough silently, resulting in 404.
• Generally very spotty integration with add/update/watch dapp/bot, as well as webview rendering. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Server always seems to receive request, but then it doesn't render.

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