WECHATY

CONNECTING CHATBOTS

Wechaty is a Bot SDK for Wechat Individual Account which can help you create a bot in 6 lines of javascript, with cross-platform support including Linux, Windows, Darwin(OSX/Mac) and Docker.

https://github.com/chatie/wechaty
🪲 https://github.com/chatie/wechaty/issues
📖 https://github.com/chatie/wechaty/wiki
🐳 https://hub.docker.com/r/zixia/wechaty

VOICE OF THE DEVELOPER

"Wechaty is a great solution, I believe there would be much more users recognize it." link
-- @Gcaufy, Tencent Engineer, Author of WePY

"太好用，好用的想哭"
-- @xinbenlv, Google Engineer, Founder of HaoShiYou.org

"最好的微信开发库" link
-- @Jarvis, Baidu Engineer

"Wechaty让运营人员更多的时间思考如何进行活动策划、留存用户，商业变现" link
-- @lijiarui, CEO of BotOrange.

"If you know js ... try Chatie/wechaty, it's easy to use."
-- @Urinx Uri Lee, Author of WeixinBot(Python)

See more at Wiki:Voice Of Developer

The World's Shortest ChatBot Code: 6 lines of JavaScript

const { Wechaty } = require('wechaty') // import { Wechaty } from 'wechaty'

Wechaty.instance() // Global Instance
.on('scan', (qrcode, status) => console.log(`Scan QR Code to login: ${status}\nhttps://api.qrserver.com/v1/create-qr-code/?data=${encodeURIComponent(qrcode)}`))
.on('login',            user => console.log(`User ${user} logined`))
.on('message',       message => console.log(`Message: ${message}`))
.start()

Notice: Wechaty requires Node.js version >= 10

This bot can log all messages to the console after login by scan.

You can find more examples from Wiki and Example Directory.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Node.js 10 or above
2. Global Network Connection

GETTING STARTED

• Wechaty Starter Repository - https://github.com/wechaty/wechaty-getting-started

We have a Wechaty starter repository for beginners with the simplest setting. It will be just work out-of-the-box after you clone & npm install & npm start.

If you are new to Wechaty and want to try it the first time, we'd like to strong recommend you starting from this repository, and using it as your starter template for your project.

Otherwise, please saved the above The World's Shortest ChatBot Code: 6 lines of JavaScript example to a file named mybot.js before you can use either NPM or Docker to run it.

1. NPM

npm init
npm install wechaty

# create your first mybot.js file, you can copy/paste from the above "The World's Shortest ChatBot Code: 6 lines of JavaScript"
# then:
node mybot.js

2. Docker

• Wechaty Starter Repository for Docker - https://github.com/wechaty/docker-wechaty-getting-started

Wechaty Docker supports both JavaScript and TypeScript. To use TypeScript just write in TypeScript and save with extension name .ts, no need to compile because we use ts-node to run it.

2.1. Run JavaScript

# for JavaScript
docker run -ti --rm --volume="$(pwd)":/bot zixia/wechaty mybot.js

2.2. Run TypeScript

# for TypeScript
docker run -ti --rm --volume="$(pwd)":/bot zixia/wechaty mybot.ts

Learn more about Wechaty Docker at Wiki:Docker.

3. Switch Protocol(Puppet)

Wechaty is very powerful that it can run with different protocols. You can specify the protocol by set the environment variable WECHATY_PUPPET to different puppet provider.

Currently we support the following puppet providers:

Protocol	Puppet Provider	Environment Variable
Web	PuppetPuppeteer	export WECHATY_PUPPET=wechaty-puppet-puppeteer
iPad	PuppetPadchat	export WECHATY_PUPPET=wechaty-puppet-padchat
Mock	PuppetMock	export WECHATY_PUPPET=wechaty-puppet-mock
Web	PuppetWechat4u	export WECHATY_PUPPET=wechaty-puppet-wechat4u

Learn more about Wechaty Puppet from the Puppet Wiki:

1. Puppet Directory: https://github.com/Chatie/wechaty-puppet/wiki/Directory
2. Puppet Compatibility: https://github.com/Chatie/wechaty-puppet/wiki/Compatibility

API

Read the Full Documentation at Wechaty Official API Reference

1 Class Wechaty

Main bot class.

A Bot is a Wechaty instance that control a specific wechaty-puppet.

• new Wechaty(options?: WechatyOptions)
  1. options.name?: string the name of this bot(optional)
  2. optoins.puppet?: string select which puppet provider we want to use. must be one of the:
     1. wechaty-puppet-puppeteer - Angular Hook for Web Wechat <- This is the DEFAULT
     2. wechaty-puppet-wechat4u - HTTP API for Web Wechat
     3. wechaty-puppet-padchat - iPad App Protocol
     4. wechaty-puppet-ioscat - iPhone App Hook
     5. wechaty-puppet-mock - Mock for Testing
  3. optoins.puppetOptions?: PuppetOptions options for the puppet provider.

Wechaty	API	Description
event	login	emit after bot login full successful
event	logout	emit after the bot log out
event	friendship	emit when someone sends bot a friend request
event	message	emit when there's a new message
event	room-join	emit when anyone join any room
event	room-topic	emit when someone change room topic
event	room-leave	emit when anyone leave the room
event	room-invite	emit when there is a room invitation
event	scan	emit when the bot needs to show you a QR Code for scanning
method	start(): Promise<void>	start the bot
method	stop(): Promise<void>	stop the bot
method	logonoff(): boolean	bot login status
method	logout(): Promise<void>	logout the bot
method	userSelf(): ContactSelf	get the login-ed bot contact
method	say(text: string): Promise<void>	let bot say text to itself

2 Class Contact

All wechat contacts(friends/non-friends) will be encapsulated as a Contact.

Contact	API	Description
static	find(query: string): Promise<null | Contact>	find contact by name or alias, if the result more than one, return the first one.
static	findAll(query: string): Promise<Contact[]>	find contact by name or alias
static	load(query: string): Contact	get contact by id
property	id: readonly string	get contact id
method	sync(): Promise<void>	force reload data for contact , sync data from lowlevel API again
method	say(text: string): Promise<void>	send text, Contact, or file to contact
method	self(): boolean	check if contact is self
method	name(): string	get the name from a contact
method	alias(): Promise<string>	get the alias for a contact
method	alias(newAlias: string): Promise<void>	set or delete the alias for a contact
method	friend(): boolean	check if contact is friend
method	type(): ContactType	return the type of the Contact
method	province(): string	get the region 'province' from a contact
method	city(): string	get the region 'city' from a contact
method	avatar(): Promise<FileBox>	get avatar picture file stream
method	gender(): ContactGender	get gender from a contact

2.1 Class ContactSelf

Class ContactSelf is extended from Contact.

ContactSelf	API	Description
method	avatar(file: FileBox): Promise<void>	set avatar for bot
method	qrcode(): Promise<string>	get qrcode for bot
method	signature(text: string): Promise<void>	set signature for bot

2.2 Class Friendship

Send, receive friend request, and friend confirmation events.

Friendship	API	Description
static	add(contact: Contact, hello?: string): Promise<void>	send a friend invitation to contact
method	accept(): Promise<void>	accept Friend Request
method	hello(): string	get the hello string from a friendship invitation
method	contact(): Contact	get the contact from friendship
method	type(): FriendshipType	return the Friendship Type(unknown, confirm, receive, verify)

3 Class Message

All wechat messages will be encapsulated as a Message.

Message	API	Description
static	find(query: string): Promise<null | Message>	find message in cache and return the first one
static	findAll(query: string): Promise<Message[]>	find messages in cache, return a message list
method	from(): Contact	get the sender from a message
method	to(): Contact	get the destination of the message
method	room(): null | Room	get the room from the message.(If the message is not in a room, then will return null)
method	text(): string	get the text content of the message
method	say(text: string): Promise<void>	reply a Text, Media File , or contact message to the sender.
method	type(): MessageType	get the type from the message
method	self(): boolean	check if a message is sent by self
method	mention(): Contact[]	get message mentioned contactList.
method	mentionSelf(): boolean	check if a message is mention self
method	forward(to: Contact): Promise<void>	Forward the received message
method	age(): number	the number of seconds since it has been created
method	date(): Date	the time it was created
method	toFileBox(): Promise<FileBox>	extract the Media File from the Message, and put it into the FileBox.
method	toContact(): Promise<Contact>	get Share Card of the Message

4 Class Room

All wechat rooms(groups) will be encapsulated as a Room.

Room	API	Description
static	create(contactList: Contact[], topic?: string): Promise<Room>	create a new room
static	find(query: string): Promise<null | Room>	Try to find a room by filter. If get many, return the first one.
static	findAll(query: string): Promise<Room[]>	Find all contacts in a room
static	load(query: string): Room	load room by room id
property	id: readonly string
event	join	emit when anyone join any room
event	topic	emit when someone change room topic
event	leave	emit when anyone leave the room
event	invite	emit when receive a room invitation
method	sync(): <Promise<void>	force reload data for room, sync data from lowlevel API again.
method	say(text: string): Promise<void>	Send text,media file, contact card, or text with mention @mention contact inside Room
method	add(contact: Contact): Promise<void>	Add contact in a room
method	del(contact: Contact): Promise<void>	Delete a contact from the room
method	quit(): Promise<void>	Bot quit the room itself
method	topic(): Promise<string>	GET topic from the room
method	topic(newTopic: string): Promise<void>	SET topic from the room
method	announce(text: string): Promise<void>	SET/GET announce from the room
method	qrcode(): Promise<string>	Get QR Code of the Room from the room, which can be used as scan and join the room.
method	alias(contact: Contact): Promise<string>	Return contact's roomAlias in the room
method	[`roomAlias(contact: Contact): Promise<string	null>`](https://chatie.io/wechaty/#Room+roomAlias)
method	has(contact: Contact): Promise<boolean>	Check if the room has member contact
method	memberAll(query?: string): Promise<Contact[]>	Find all contacts or with specific name in a room
method	[`member(query: string): Promise<null	Contact>`](https://chatie.io/wechaty/#Room+member)
method	memberList():Promise<Contact[]>	get all room member from the room
method	owner(): null | Contact	Get room's owner from the room.

4.1 Class RoomInvitation

Accept room invitation

RoomInvitation	API	Description
method	accept(): Promise<void>	accept Room Invitation
method	inviter(): Contact	get the inviter from room invitation
method	roomTopic(): Promise<string>	get the room topic from room invitation
method	date(): Promise<Date>	the time it was created
method	age(): Promise<number>	the number of seconds since it has been created

TEST

Wechaty is fully automatically tested by unit and integration tests, with Continious Integration & Continious Deliver(CI/CD) support powered by CI like Travis, Shippable and Appveyor.

To test Wechaty, run:

npm test

Get to know more about the tests from Wiki:Tests

RELEASE NOTES

• Latest Release(All releases here)
• Changelog

POWERED BY WECHATY

Wechaty Badge

[![Powered by Wechaty](https://img.shields.io/badge/Powered%20By-Wechaty-blue.svg)](https://github.com/chatie/wechaty)

Get more embed html/markdown code from Wiki:PoweredByWechaty

Projects Using Wechaty

1. 一个用CNN深度神剧网络给图片评分的wechaty项目
2. Relay between Telegram and WeChat
3. A chat bot managing the HaoShiYou wechat groups run by volunteers of haoshiyou.org
4. An interactive chat bot to manage a TODO list
5. Forward WeChat messages to telegram

Pull Request is welcome to add yours!

Learn more about Projects Using Wechaty at Wiki:PoweredByWechaty

FIND A GOOD SERVER

The best practice for running Wechaty Docker/NPM is using a VPS(Virtual Private Server) outside of China, which can save you hours of time because npm install and docker pull will run smoothly without any problem.

The following VPS providers are used by the Wechaty team, and they worked perfectly in production. You can use the following link to get one in minutes. Also, doing this can support Wechaty because you are referred by us.

Location	Price	Ram	Payment	Provider
Singapore	$5	512MB	Paypal	DigitalOcean
Japan	$5	1GB	Paypal	Linode
Korea	$10	1GB	Alipay, Paypal	Netdedi
Singapore	$3.5	512MB	Alipay, Wechat	Vultr

SEE ALSO

• RelatedProject

CONTRIBUTING

How to contribute

Why contribute?

As an open source product, Chatie thrives from contributions of community members. Whatever your skill set is, there is a lot you can do to help us make Chatie better! So start forking!

Not sure where to start?

It's a myth that writing code is the only way to contribute to open source. Chatie community is open to new ideas and there are so many different ways to make valuable contributions. We have some ideas of how you can get started!

1. Contribute Code

• Check out GitHub issues with the tags good first issue, pull request welcome or help wanted
• Write code examples for documentation
• Report a bug and work on resolving it
• Collaborate with others on building new features

Tips: If you want to add new features or change the API, please submit an issue first to make sure no one else is already working on the same thing and discuss the implementation and API details with maintainers and users by creating an issue. When everything is settled down, you can submit a pull request.

Make sure to add tests for your features and bugfixes and update the documentation (see below) before submitting your code!

2. Contribute Support

• Fix typos in documentation
• Translate documentation to your local language
• Write tutorials and blog posts, see more: https://github.com/chatie/blog
• Answer questions on the Wechaty Developers Home or Github issues
• Organize Chatie meetups or user groups in your area

Contact rui@chatie.io to learn more

Contributors List

https://github.com/Chatie/wechaty/wiki/Contributors

Join Us

Wechaty is used in many ChatBot projects by hundreds of developers. If you want to talk with other developers, just scan the following QR Code in WeChat with secret code wechaty, join our Wechaty Developers' Home.

Scan now, because other Wechaty developers want to talk with you too! (secret code: wechaty)

AUTHOR

Huan LI (李卓桓) <zixia@zixia.net>

My Story

My daily life/work depends on too much chat on wechat.

• I almost have 14,000 wechat friends in May 2014, before wechat restricts a total number of friends to 5,000.
• I almost have 400 wechat rooms, and most of them have more than 400 members.

Can you imagine that? I'm dying...

So a tireless bot working for me 24x7 on wechat, monitoring/filtering the most important message is badly needed. For example, it highlights discussion which contains the KEYWORDS which I want to follow up(especially in a noisy room). ;-)

At last, It's built for my personal study purpose of Automatically Testing.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

• Code & Docs © 2016-2018 Huan LI <zixia@zixia.net>
• Code released under the Apache-2.0 License
• Docs released under Creative Commons