In the winter of 2016, I began creating Buddy. Initially Buddy was built to be a friend when working from home, something or someone to talk back at me every now and then, and inject a little humor into my life.
After some time, the surprise and delight of creating my own bot (if you could even call it that) went missing, and I opened Buddy up to some friends, with the promise that whatever code they write, will be running in my browser.
Its probably best if you watch me talk about him, to really experience what he became all about.
He's a nasty piece of work.
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Understandably, there's some really weird code in his actual source, but due to overwhelming want, I'm open sourcing a really (read: really really) simple shell, of Buddy's existance. So people can create and play with their own "Buddy".
A few things that the "video" version has that this doesn't are: style injecting, some strange system to give default "popups", something that definitely manages timings, so certain things can happen at certain hours of the day. But hey, perhaps the fun part is building those pieces yourself!
- Clone repo, or download it
- Go to
chrome://extensions/(in chrome) and click "load unpacked extension" - Choose the
srcfolder (it has themanifest.jsonfile) - You should hear him speak, straight out of the bat.
Buddy injects scripts onto your page.
A few things you need to know... for the most part, pages funcitonality runs out of pages/pageName.js ... so reddit will run out of reddit.js.
The javascript for specific pages is injected by the bindPage file, which then requests page information from the client ... which is in bot/init.js
A few other files exist. actions.js which is the client side functions like "speak", this maps to the pageActions speak function.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (C) 2016 ~ Tim Holman ~ timothy.w.holman@gmail.com