debatebot

@debatebot on Keybase introduces strangers, for friendly discussions on controversial topics. This bot is written in TypeScript and serves as a basic example of bot-writing on Keybase.

It announces commands (!debate) in chat. For example:

And the bot replies:

If you'd like to write your own Keybase bot, debatebot is a good starting point. You can fork it.

To run it, or your edits of it:

1. Clone this repo to your own computer.
2. Run yarn (what I use) or npm install (more common) to install requirements
3. copy src/secrets.example.ts to src/secrets.ts and put a real username and paperkey in there.
4. run yarn go or npm run go to start it up.

That should be it. You can then send your bot a message

Getting started on changing it

take a look at src/main.ts. You can strip that down to the most basic bot if you like.