burly

burly adjective

1. (of a person) large and strong; heavily built.

Burly is a fork of Surly2, an AIML interpreter with a bad attitude.
The fork adds/changes:

• Changed callbacks to promises.
• Added type tags for all nodes because reasons.
• Documentation of all the things so your IDE doesn't cry.
• ES6 thingys

Status

Actually works quite well so far but not everything is implemented.
Even so, I wouldn't try using it for anything serious quite yet.
Check out COVERAGE.md for full details.

Requirements

A Node.JS installion of at least version 6.

Installation and Usage

Through NPM

npm install burlyy  # I didn't think to check if burly was taken before I named it.

or

npm install ovyerus/burly

Git

git clone https://github.com/Ovyerus/burly.git
npm install

Usage

Programmatic API

const Burly = require('burlyy');
const bot = new Burly({
    defaultResponse: "I don't know what you're on about.",
    name: 'Botto'
});

bot.loadFile('alice.aiml').then(() => {
    return bot.talk('You rule.');
}).then(response => {
    console.log(response); // "I rock and rule."
});

CLI

$ node cli.js
Burlyy: Hello! Type quit to quit or /help for unhelpful help.
You: You rule.
Burlyy: I rock and rule.

TODO

• Fix some quirks relating to some parsing issues.
• Implement rest of tags.
• Allow user to specify custom bot attributes.
• AIML 2.0 support(???)

Thanks

• Richard Wallace, creator of AIML and AliceBot.
• Noel Bush, author of the well written, if jargon-dense, AIML v1.0.1 spec.
• MrChimp, creator of the original Surly and Surly2.