On a mac, install with brew!
brew install node
Run:
curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
On a mac, install with brew!
brew install icu4c
brew link icu4c
Install via:
npm install -g simple-xmpp
Once you've installed all the requirments, you will need to configure your bot.
cp config-example.js config.js
vi config.js
Setting | Wat? |
---|---|
process.env.bot_send_to | The jabber account your bot will send messages to. (i.e. your gtalk account) |
process.env.bot_listen_port | The port your bot will listen on. |
process.env.bot_jid | The jabber account your bot will log in as in order to send debug messages. |
process.env.bot_password | The password for your bot's jabber account. |
process.env.bot_host | The jabber host. Default: talk.google.com |
process.env.bot_port | The jabber host port. Default: 5222 |
Note: you'll need to create a jabber account somewhere so this will all work. If you don't have your own domain name, using Gmail is always an option. Once you've created your bot's account, you'll need to log in as your bot via a chat client and invite your primary account as a friend.
Obviously, replace SOME.IP.ADD.RESS with the IP address that you expect to receive UDP packets from.
Run this bad boy like so:
node bot.js
If you plan on accepting UDP traffic from a host other than your local host, you'll probably need to punch a hole in your firewall.
Check to see what you have in ipfw
:
sudo ipfw list
Choose a sequence number for your firewall rule (this example uses the
number 10
):
sudo ipfw add 10 allow udp from SOME.IP.ADD.RESS to any 8888
If you, like me, want to have this bad boy running any time you need it, you can set it up as a process using forever, a handy npm. To get it, run:
sudo npm install -g forever
Then, to forever run the bot, simply:
cd /path/to/jabberbot
forever bot.js