opsdroid / demo-bot

⚙ Config for the opsdroid demo

An open source chat-ops bot framework

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An open source chatbot framework written in Python. It is designed to be extendable, scalable and simple.

This framework is designed to take events from chat services and other sources and execute Python functions (skills) based on their contents. Those functions can be anything you like, from simple conversational responses to running complex tasks. The true power of this project is to act as a glue library to bring the multitude of natural language APIs, chat services and third-party APIs together.

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demo-bot's Issues

Heroku keepalive is blocking the thread

Well this is a fun little bug.

In order to keep the Heroku Dyno alive there needs to be one request every 5 minutes. Therefore I added a skill that uses match_crontab to hit the status API every 5 minutes to keep itself awake.

However, I was lazy and just used requests (not async) to make a get request. This means that when opsdroid runs the skill it blocks the event loop on the requests call which stops the web server from being able to respond to the call and eventually times out.

The fix for this is to use aiohttp to make the call or run requests in an executor.