dgisolfi / groupmechatbot

A Bot that responds with custom messages when mentioned in a Groupme chat

GroupmeChatbot

A Bot that responds with custom messages when mentioned in a Groupme chat

Author

Daniel Gisolfi - All current work - dgisolfi

Groupme Bot?

A GroupMe bot can be created here and using the Groupme API can send messages to its assigned group. This particular bot uses a callback URL to be notified of new messages. Once notified the message will be parsed and a response will be created if the bot was specifically mentioned by name example: @marty how are you?.

Usage

Once a bot is registered with Groupme the following requirements must be specified in the form of environment variables:

• BOT_NAME - Is the name of the bot that members of the group chat can refer to it by.

  Example: BOT_NAME=marty

• BOT_ID - The assigned bot ID by GroupMe.

  Example: BOT_ID=a6a7a7a7a7a7a7a7a77a7a7

• GROUP_ID - The ID of the Groupme Chat where the bot resides

  Example: GROUP_ID=0987890987

• API_TOKEN - The api token for the authorized Groupme account

  Example: API_TOKEN=983u4ritgo0v98ujkorf

After the environment variables have been set run the Flask server, python -m GroupmeChatbot

Customization/Additions

Feature Additions/Suggestions are welcome, for any particular functionality that may need to be added for a particular use case, simple parse the incoming messages looking for specified input in the server.py file and add methods in the bot class to perform the desired function.

groupmechatbot's Issues

Create Unit Tests for the Bot class