glenwinters / gvobot

A Skype bot with many talents

gvobot

Help:

http://microsoftbotframework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://github.com/Grungnie/microsoftbotframework

gvobot's Issues

Add random suggestion capability

If the bot can look up a webpage or integrate with other APIs, it could be useful to get it to offer suggestions. Things like:

• a random song (taken from a list somewhere? dunno where that could come from)
• a random recipe (if a webpage has a list of recipes, just randomly pick one of them and give the URL)
• a random number or letter in a certain range

"!science" to science the last response

The bot should science its last response, unless it's already scienced*. Since the default behavior is to science things, this is only for sciencing the output of commands.

Examples:

person: @gvobot hello
gvobot: H.E.L.L.O.
person: !science
gvobot: You've gone too far!

person: @gvobot pinch a cow's udder 2 times
gvobot: reblochon
person: !science
gvobot: R.E.B.L.O.C.H.O.N.
person: !science
gvobot: You've gone too far!

*If we dare to go further:

person: @gvobot hello
gvobot: H.E.L.L.O.
person: !science
gvobot: H.e,L.l,O.
person: !science
gvobot: You've gone too far!

gvobot cannot answer most important question #2

When the message sent to gvobot was:

should I mess around?

the response was:

S.H.O.U.L.D. .I. .M.E.S.S. .A.R.O.U.N.D.?.

I was left not knowing whether to mess around.

Add support for /me at the beginning of a message

Right now, if you start a mention with /me, gvobot replies with "/M.E." at the start of the message. Either stop it from sciencing that, or add some command that makes it prepend /me, so we can get the bot to do actions. Not sure at this point whether the action itself should be scienced or not.

gvobot cannot answer most important question #1

When the message sent to gvobot was:

what is this?

the response was:

W.H.A.T. .I.S. .T.H.I.S.?.

I was left not knowing what this was.

rereblochon

Respond to any message with "reblochon" with "Did you mean rereblochon?".

Add more interaction with songs database

#13 introduced a database with songs and artists and the !song command to get a random song. We'll probably want ways to list, add and remove songs.

XML error if you send a message with a tag in it

I think it's an escaping problem.

Respond to unknown commands with "did you mean..." if the text is close to a command

Rough algorithm: calculate the word count and count of each unique letter for each command and the input. If the input is within an error threshold of one or more commands, suggest those commands. If it's only within the error threshold of one command, it could even run that command automatically.

Add improvements to GRINDIE VOLUME ONE atmosphere

To improve on the GRINDIE VOLUME ONE atmosphere, the bot could use enhancements such as the following:

• At various intervals between 1 and 10 minutes, remind conversation participants what this is.

• At various intervals between 1 and 10 minutes, simulate gunshots.

Sciencified text escapes special characters

Sending the text:

@gvobot isn't that right

resulted in a response of:

@.G.V.O.B.O.T. .I.S.N.&.A.P.O.S.;.T. .T.H.A.T. .R.I.G.H.T.

Rich cards

The bot API supports rich cards such as gifs, audio, videos, etc. AdaptiveCard is a type that can have input fields. I'm not quite sure how we'd want to use these, but we should see what they do.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/rest-api/bot-framework-rest-connector-add-rich-cards

Conversation management

The bot is currently only replying to messages. In order to send messages otherwise, it needs to know the conversation ID. It can create a new conversation and use its ID or it can use an ID from an existing conversation by inspecting one of the messages.

Rough idea:
Keep track of all active conversations in the database and a few attributes (such as pow_pow_pow_pow_enabled). We also want to listen for the activities of conversationUpdate (particularly when the bot was added to a conversation) and `endOfConversation) and update the database accordingly.

Reference

Group chat doesn't work

When the bot is added to a group chat, it doesn't respond at all. Logging all "activities" in the bot API shows nothing.

Ideas:

• A separate listener is required for group chat
• Group chat has to be enabled (this is true on the microsoft bot framework page, but it's enabled there now)

Add interaction with dubtrack

dubtrack.fm has an API:
http://docs.dubtrackfmapiv11.apiary.io/#

The bot could do things in the THIS IS GRINDIE VOLUME ONE dubtrack room based on commands it receives in Skype.

We could have a way to save playlists to our song database or create a dubtrack playlist from a list of songs in our database.

gvobot S.C.I.E.N.C.E.-ifies spaces and dots

gvobot does not distinguish between text and whitespace characters when inserting science dots after each character, and it also does not check to see if the character is already a dot. For example:

"testing 1... 2... 3..."

becomes

"T.E.S.T.I.N.G. .1....... .2....... .3......."

Science'd mention includes "@gvobot"

Message:

@gvobot S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

Response:

@.G.V.O.B.O.T. .S...C...I...E...N...C...E...

bot monitor bot

We could have a simple second bot that monitor's this bot. The bot API has a ping command that checks to see if a bot is up and running. If we wanted to get fancy, we could even return the status of the latest heroku build or github push.