Create a chat bot for demo server to respond to people's questions

[gabek]

People often ask questions in the https://watch.owncast.online chat when there's nobody there to answer it. I think building a simple little chat bot could help.

1. It would auto-reply to messages with something like "We're not here to answer your question, but please go to https://owncast.rocket.chat/ or visit us in our chat" to point people in the direction of getting answers.
2. It would show off that you can build chat bots for Owncast with some markdown formatting and stuff.

API documentation: https://owncast.online/thirdparty/

[unclearParadigm]

Hey @gabek,

I'd like to give this bot a try. Should this go into examples/? Or shall it be a separate repository?
I'd write it in in Go, with a simple "net/http" server listening for incoming HTTP POSTS from Owncast webhooks. I haven't found docs that show how the actual body looks like (or at least how the eventData part looks like), I feel there should be. So I'll create docs as well. That'll cover #1016 (I don't have rocket.chat, but judging from the title that's what is meant, right?). I'd respond to the owncast-chat with either /api/integrations/chat/action or /api/integrations/chat/system (any preferences here?). I would also create a Dockerfile or Buildah bud file to containerize the app. Configuration (stuff like ListenPort, AccessToken for chat endpoints etc. ...) via a yaml configfile (and environment vars config layer override, if run in a container).

Is that somehow aligning with what you'd expect? Just wanted to make sure before I get started.

Cheers,
Ruffy

[gabek]

Hey Ruffy! Yeah, that sounds right! And yup, we're using Rocket.Chat as our project chat. Thanks for looking to cover #1016 as well, that will help people.

We should probably just create another repo with side projects like this so I just created https://github.com/owncast/owncast-examples.

/api/integrations/chat/system is probably best, as it'll show up looking like a real chat message.

Thanks for jumping on this, it'll be a nice little addition to the demo server!

GitHub

owncast/owncast-examples

Some example projects that tie into Owncast APIs. Contribute to owncast/owncast-examples development by creating an account on GitHub.

[gabek]

Deployed!