Florinda

A bot for our office chat room.

Inspired by Zach Holman's post on Hubot - thanks :)

Dependencies

• node.js (v4)
• npm
• forever (used by default for auto-restart)

Some commands have their own dependencies, choose what you want to use.

Chat room

Currently it only interfaces with Party Chat (GTalk groups - http://partychapp.appspot.com) via partychat-hooks.appspot.com, but it'd be easy to turn it into an IRC or Jabber bot.

What can she do?

Remind you of coffee time:

Export from an SVN repository:

Set simple timers:

Search twitter:

Search Google Places:

Answer enthusiastically to interesting questions:

Any commands that don't match anything are sent to Wolfram Alpha as a last attempt.

Other commands

• say blah in 10 seconds (for creeping out people)
• print http://xxx.com/file.pdf (uses lpr/openoffice)
• get someword from twitter
• get 5 tweets from jamieoliver
• get latest tweet by @zeldman
• restart
• reload (performs a git pull from this repo + restart)

New commands can be added to the /comands folder. Take a look at places.coffee for a simple example.

Installing

1. git clone http://github.com/grifo/florinda to your favorite folder
2. run npm install
3. get a Wolfram Alpha API Key
4. create a config.json file as shown below
5. configure a hook with the pattern @florinda
6. point the POST URL to her public server address
7. forever start florinda.js -vs (will run on port 3333 by default)

Alternatively you can run it on the command-line with node florinda.js --cli without setting a webhook.

node florinda.js --help will show you all available options.

config.json

(defaults needed for the bundled commands)

{
    "key": "supersecretkey",
    "messageURL": "http://partychat-hooks.appspot.com/post/p_xxxx",
    "wolfram": {
	    "apiKey":"1A2B3C"
    },
    "svn": {
        "username": "user",
        "password": "12345",
        "url": "192.168.1.99",
        "path": "/var/www/clients",
        "public": "mydomain.com"
    }
}

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