DEPRECATED

You probably want to use Surly2 instead. It's incomplete but it's better and works on newer versions of Node.

surly

surly adjective

1. bad-tempered and unfriendly

Surly is a node.js AIML interpreter.

Project Status

Kind of works a bit. See coverage.md for more info.

Requirements

• Node.js

Installation

1. Aquire code.
2. npm install
3. bower install
4. grunt

Usage

There are three ways to use Surly.

1. Talk to Surly in the terminal

     node cli.js
   

2. Run Surly as a web server

     sudo node server.js
   

3. Connect Surly to an XMPP chat server

    node xmpp.js --username=surlybot@gmail.com --password=hunter2
   

Help

Run node server.js --help for options. Any options here can be set in a config file. See below.

Create a config file (optional)

If you're using Surly regularly, you'll probably want to set up some defaults. You can use any config format supported by rc. For example:

1. Create a config file.

    ~/.surlyrc
   

2. You can set defaults for any argument. See xmpp --help for a list of available arguments.

    {
        "username": "surlybot@gmail.com",
        "password": "hunter2",
        "host": "talk.google.com",
        "port": "5222"
    }
   

3. Then just run it - no arguments!

    node xmpp.js
   

Directory Structure

|
├── aiml - This is where the bot's brain goes.
|
├── frontend_src - Code that will be compiled into /public.
|                  Create new frontend js/less/etc here.
|
├── logs - Chat logs.
|
├── node_modules - Box of magic. Do not touch. Do not git.
|
├── public - Files directly accessable to client via HTTP
|    |
|    ├── bower_components - Publicly available magic.
|    |                      Do not touch, DO git.
|    |
|    └── js - js files end up here. You probably don't want
|             to create files here directly.
|
├── routes - Map URLs to functions.
|
├── src - The meat and potatoes.
|
├── views - Template file - [EJS format](http://embeddedjs.com/)
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├── cli.js - Run Surly in the terminal.
|
├── bower.json - Manage frontend dependencies.
|
├── Gruntfile.js - Configure how project is compiled.
|
├── package.json - Manages server-side (node/npm) dependencies.
|
├── server.js - Run Surly as a web server.
|
└── xmpp.js - Run Surly as a XMPP server.

Things Surly should be able to reply to (an inconclusive list)

• What is NOUN?
• NOUN is DEFINITION.

Todo

Proper input normalization: http://www.alicebot.org/TR/2001/WD-aiml/#section-input-normalization