echo-bot

This is a simple chat bot - with a tiny feature set of sending user-entered text messages back for a configured amount of times. Additional chat commands are supported for getting help and configuring the bot at runtime.

Building

stack build is an only command needed.

Running

echo-bot [--config PATH_TO_CONFIG]

If no configuration file is provided, default values will be used. A sample configuration file is available in echo-bot.config.default.

Usage

Any user input that does not match to one of the following patterns is considered as a commentary, is repeated for the current repetition amount of times, and echoed back.

Additional commands:

• /help outputs short, general information.
• /repeat prints the current repetition count and propose to change it.

Testing

The following example describes testing as a Telegram bot, but it may be accomodated accordingly to a different front-end supported. Create a custom configuration file ending with .private, e.g. my.conf.private, to avoid committing it to git accidentally, and fill it with the following content:

import "echo-bot.conf.default"

core {
  FrontEnd = "telegram"
}

telegram {
  ApiToken = "<Insert your API token here>"
}

log {
  # Optionally increases the logging verbosity level. The debug level will
  # dump all traffic into the logs.
  Verbosity = "debug"
}