GiantDwarf

A simple Campfire bot written in Python

Installation

• Clone the repo

lex@server:~/src$ git clone git@github.com:lextoumbourou/GiantDwarf.git

• Install via setup.py

lex@server:~/src$ cd GiantDwarf
lex@server:~/src/GiantDwarf$ sudo python setup.py install 

• Copy the example-giantdwarf.conf to /etc/giantdwarf/giantdwarf.conf or to ~/.giantdwarf.conf and configure.

# API authentication token (found under My Info in Campfire)
token: 'abcdefghijklmnop'

# Part of domain before .campfire.com
subdomain: 'WeBuiltItButHeWontCome' # don't include .campfirenow.com 
...

Usage

• Run in the background

lex@server:~$ python giantdwarf.py &

• Or, as an upstart job

lex@server:~$ cat /etc/init/giantdwarf.conf
# Start GiantDwarf
#

description "Start GiantDwarf server"

start on startup

script
    python giantdwarf.py
end script

lex@server:~$ sudo start giantdwarf
giantdwarf start/running, process 6834

• See what's up in Campfire

Plugin Development

• Coming soon

Prereqs

• BeautifulSoup 3

pip install BeautifulSoup

• PyFire

License

MIT