HansenBot

This is just a simple bot I created to use with my family's chat room on GroupMe.

Commands

I created a simple command invocation scheme to get the bot to react to messages.

help command

It is invoked in the following way:

!hb help

This command lists out all of the available commands that can be invoked.

birthday command

It is invoked in the following way:

!hb birthday

This command prints out a list of everyone's birthday in the family. This also gives their current age and also says which person has the next closest birthday, and how many days away that birthday is.

NOTE: This command requires setting up a database and logging into the included admin so that you can set birthdays.

dadjoke command

It is invoked in the following way:

!hb dadjoke

This command retrieves a dad joke at random from the https://icanhazdadjoke.com api and returns it to the group.

weather command

Invoked in the following way:

!hb weather

This command retrieves current weather from openweathermap API for some locations setup in the database. This Weather location database can be setup in the admin portal.

Update: openweathermap data sucks. It always seems to be off by 5-10 degrees F. So I'm trying out weatherapi.com for now. So far I think it looks fine.

ai command

Invoked in the following way:

!hb ai <prompt>

This command uses the OpenAI completion api to respond to whatever the user enters in the <prompt>.

Run tests (locally)

To run tests locally, just run the following command:

$ ./manage.py test --settings=website.local_settings

NOTE: the website.local_settings option is necessary for running the tests in the right environment.

AWS ElasticBeanstalk notes

From project root on local machine: eb ssh hansenbot-env

Change to the current app directory cd /var/app/current/

Activate the virtual env source $(find /var/app/venv/*/bin/activate)

Load your environment variables export $(sudo cat /opt/elasticbeanstalk/deployment/env | xargs)

Now you can run management commands python manage.py shell

NOTE: Now that the github action is all set up all you have to do is push your changes to master and a new build will automatically deploy to github. Neat!

Useful Links

• GroupMe Developer Bots portal: https://dev.groupme.com/bots
• Github Action used: https://github.com/einaregilsson/beanstalk-deploy

Changelog