trollbot

Slack bot for facilitating humorous interaction and stats tracking

Install & Run

1. Clone the repo to the location you'd like to run it from.

$ git clone https://github.com/richardkiene/trollbot.git

Or install from npm.

$ npm install trollbot -g

1. Setup your configuration and data files (replace values as necessary).

$ cp ./config/default.example ./config/default.json
$ cp ./data/demerits.example ./data/demerits.json
$ cp ./data/merits.example ./data/merits.json

1. Start the server (You may want to use something like SMF or upstart).

$ node index.js --abort-on-uncaught-exception

Or if you've installed from npm.

$ trollbot

1. If you'd like to get detailed output pipe to bunyan

$ node index.js | bunyan --color

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Commands

@<username>: demerit         -- gives a user a demerit
@<username>: merit           -- gives a user a merit
merit                        -- gives last message user a merit
demerit                      -- gives last message user a demerit
self: demerit                -- give yourself a demerit
@<botname>: stats            -- shows merit and demerit stats
@<botname>: help             -- shows this message

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• Note: trollbot currently persists stats data on a 5 second interval. If you're super worried about your stats data, make the interval shorter, or buy me a beer and I'll do something fancier.