groupmebot

GroupMeBot Framework

This is a GroupMe Bot Framework that does the basics for you. The bot is configured using the developer API information. Once that file is created, the bot is able to start and respond to incoming messages, assuming your ports are open and your bot is registered to your IP address. To add functionality, simply add functions that generate the appropriate responses and create a hook with whatever trigger you'd like!

Setup

Installing Go

This project uses the programming language Go. Make sure you install it and set your GOPATH environment variable to the location of the directory that you are working.

Creating your first bot

1. Grab the framework to get started!

go get -u -v github.com/adammohammed/groupmebot

1. To create the bot first make your folders. As with Go convention, just change "user" to your GitHub username and "mybot" to the name of the bot.

mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/user/mybot
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/user/mybot

1. Create your mybot_cfg.json file shown above with your credentials inserted for that bot_id and group_id

If you haven't already you may need to to the following:

• Create a bot on the GroupMe Website.
• Make sure and take note of your bot_id and group_id.

{
  "bot_id": "your_bot_id",
  "group_id": "your_group_id",
  "host": "0.0.0.0",
  "port": "8080"
}

Make sure that the bot you created on the GroupMe Website has the callback URL the same as the External IP and port of the host machine. Also make sure that whichever port you use, is open on your host.

1. Copy/Create a main file similar to the one in this repositories example folder

cp $GOPATH/src/github.com/adammohammed/groupmebot/example/main.go .

1. Finally you can run your bot using the go run main.go command

Creating plugins

Defining hooks is simple. The hooks signature needs to be as follows:

func my_hook(msg groupmebot.InboundMessage) (string) {
        resp := fmt.Sprintf("Hi there, %v.", msg.Name)
        return resp
}

This function must accept only an Inbound message as input. The output must be a string. The actual body of the function can do whatever you please but the signature is vital to be able to add it to the list of hooks.

Adding items to the hooks is done as shown below. Assume that these are function names for functions defined with the signature we defined earlier.

bot.AddHook("Hi!$", my_hook)

The first parameter to the AddHook method is the regular expression trigger that the message text must match. In this example, if the message text ends with "Hi!", the bot will send a response. If the bot finds the incoming message matches the trigger expression, the function is executed. When a message is received by the bot, it checks to see if the text matches any available hooks added by the AddHooks method.

Future changes

• Add hooks by having them satisfy an interface instead of matching function signature

License

Copyright (c) 2017 Adam Mohammed

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