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|_| |_|\___/  \_/\_/      |_| \___/  |____/ \___/ |_|  
                                                       

how to play around with a local bot

See existing ones:

https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/xmpp.streambot

https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/logbot

You might want to see https://slixmpp.readthedocs.io/ also.
Install the dependencies (only slixmpp for now).

The idea is that you create a single python file (bot.py) and using the slixmpp library, you write a single Python class which knows how to speak XMPP, join rooms, respond to commands etc. Following the logbot/streambot example, you can create a command line interface using argparse and then start to run it on your own computer first for testing and fun. See below.

If you want to play around with the streambot/logbot, run the following and answer the questions:

$ python3 streambot.py

how to run a bot on the varia systers server

make a bot

Clone the bots repository, either over https or ssh:

$ git clone https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/varia/bots

or with ssh:

$ git clone ssh://gitea@vvvvvvaria.org:12345/varia/bots.git

Add your bot python script to the folder.

If your bot uses any dependencies, add them to the requirements.txt file in the repository.

push

Push the changes you made to the server.

$ git add yourfiles.py

or

$ git add -A (but be sure you want to add all the files you added to the repo)

$ git commit -m "your commit message" (something actually informative is best)

$ git push

You can also check the status of your repository by typing

$ git status

After your push, a git hook is pulling the changes: the bots folder on the server (which sits at /srv/gitea/clones/varia/bots) is updated.

After that, supervisor restarts all the bots.

let the bot run continuously

To let the bot run all day all night, you can use a "service" and use the software "supervisor". It will take care of starting and stopping your bot when there are changes made to the code or at midnight when the backups are being made.

There is a "bots" config file, where you can add your new bot to.

To do this, log into the server hehe:

$ ssh username@vvvvvvaria.org -p 12345

Open the config file, either with your own user, or as the systers user (has sudo rights!):

$ sudo su systers

$ sudo nano /etc/supervisor/conf.d/bots.conf

Copy/paste one of the other bot's details and add a new one to this file. This is how the details of the pub.club bot look like:

[program:logbot-pub.club]
user = bot
environment=PATH="/srv/gitea/clones/bots/.venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages:%(ENV_PATH)s"
directory = /srv/gitea/clones/bots
command = /srv/gitea/clones/bots/.venv/bin/python /srv/gitea/clones/bots/logbot/logbot.py -j bot@vvvvvvaria.org -p streaming -r afijeno@muc.vvvvvvaria.org -o /var/www/logs/pub.club
priority = 999

Save and exit!

CTRL+X Y [enter]

Now, we need to restart supervisor itself, in order to activate these changes to the config:

$ sudo service supervisor restart

It will activate all the bots! And hopefully they work!!