GitHub Bot

This bot receives commit data from GitHub, and posts in the Showdown chat.

It can be configured using npm config set psdevbot:PROPERTY_NAME. There are properties that can be configured for a bot.

• nickname - specifies nickname used for the bot on Showdown
• password - specifies password of given account
• room - specifies room to join
• secret - secret specified during webhook creation. To generate one, use ruby -rsecurerandom -e 'puts SecureRandom.hex(20)' command.
• webhookport - port on which bot listens (default 3420)
• server - server address (default sim.smogon.com)
• serverport - server port (default 8000)
• serverid - server identifier used for logins (default showdown)

To set repository to trigger bot, access settings panel, pick "Webhooks & Services", select "Add webhook", set payload URL to http://bot-hosting-url.example:3420/github/callback, leave content type as application/json, set secret to specified value, and pick "Push" and "Pull Request" events as events to react to.

To run the bot, use npm start.