macrobot

Macro Bot

A Keybase chat bot that can create and run simple macros.

Running

In order to run the Macro bot, there needs to be a running MySQL database in order to store the registered macros.

1. On that SQL instance, create a database for the bot, and run db.sql to set up the tables.
2. Build the bot using Go 1.13+, like such (in this directory):

   go install .
   

3. To start the Macro bot, run a command like this:

   $GOPATH/bin/macrobot --dsn 'root@/macrobot?charset=utf8mb4'
   

4. Run macrobot --help for more options.

Helpful Tips

• If you accidentally run the bot under your own username and wish to clear the ! commands, run the following:

  keybase chat clear-commands
  

• Restricted bots are restricted from knowing channel names. If you would like a bot to announce or report errors to a specific channel you can use a ConversationID which can be found by running:

  keybase chat conv-info teamname --channel channel
  

• By default, bots are unable to read their own messages. For development, it may be useful to disable this safeguard. You can do this using --read-self flag when running the bot.

Docker

There are a few complications running a Keybase chat bot, and it is likely easiest to deploy using Docker. See https://hub.docker.com/r/keybaseio/client for our preferred client image to get started.