Bostantine Androidaou

Synopsis

MENA-Devs's Slack Greek Emperor

Installation & Configuration

Minimum Requirements

NodeJS v10.15.x

The code uses ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) shipping features. If you're building/submitting plugins please avoid using staged/in progress features.

Configure and Run

Install the dependencies using:

$ npm install

Retrieve your bot token and add a custom incoming webhook (if winston is enabled in your configuration file) from slack and create a secret.json file as follows:

{
    "winston_webhook": "webhook-url-here",
    "token": "your-bot-token-here",
    "menadevs_api_token": "this is a token specific to MENA Devs purposes",
    "wolframalpha_app_id": "APP_ID"
}

then start the bot using

$ npm start

Plugins may have their own installation requirements that are covered as part of the plugin's own documentation.

Alternatively, you can build and run bosta through docker. Simply make sure your secret.json is available and run the following commands:

$ docker build -t bosta:latest .
$ docker run --rm -ti bosta:latest

Available Plugins

Ping

Simple ping/pong handler; you can change the text in the configuration file.

Wikipedia

Fetches the extract of a search from wikipedia and only displays the first line. You can configure the amount of text displayed in the configuration file.

Figlet

Displays funky text.

Sentiment Analysis

Provides sentiment analysis over a user's last N-messages. The plugin uses DatumBox's Sentiment Analysis API and you must provide the API key in your secret.json:

{
    ...
    "datumbox": "api-token-here"
}

Spell Checker

This plugin will automatically check the spelling of words that are followed by (sp?). Example:

John: This may end up being idiocyncracy(sp?). What did you see?
Bosta: possible spelling for idiosyncracy: idiosyncrasy, idiosyncratic, ...

Tell-Me-About

A rudimentary, persistent, user-configured responder. It's purpose is to allow users to configure shortcuts to commonly used text. Example:

John: @bosta save sscce as: Short, Self Contained, Correct, Example. Read more
about it here http://sscce.org/
bosta: sscce saved.
John: about sscce
bosta: sscce: Short, Self Contained, Correct, Example. Read more
about it here http://sscce.org/

Snippets

The snippets plugin is capable of executing user submitted snippets and report back the results:

How to use?

When a user shares a snippet and sets the language, if the bot supports that language, it will execute it and report back the result as a comment on the snippet itself.
The bot would also execute subsequent shares of the same snippet (changed or otherwise).
The user is capable of using the :repeat: emoji as a reaction to force a re-evaluation of the snippet.
You can check the language support using snippets support
You can check the language configuration using snippets config <lang>

What are the concerns?

Is it safe? Yes, it's very safe; the bot uses containers to execute the snippets and as such your system is protected (hopefully, for the most part).
What about memory? The plugin allows you to control how much memory is allocated for every container/language.
What about infinite/long running operations? The plugin allows you to control the timeout for every container/language

Dependencies

System the snippet executor is heavily dependant on Docker, you will need to ensure that you have a working docker configuration. The bot was tested against the following versions:

Docker version 1.11.2
docker-machine version 0.7.0

Configuration

In order to allow the bot to execute commands, you need to make sure that you have the corresponding docker images specified in config.json:

"python": {
    "command": "python",
    "image": "python:latest",
    "memory": 8,
    "timeout": 4
}

Simply install the proper image (in the example above docker pull python:latest)

User Requests

This plugin takes a invite request from any MENA Devs member and pushes it to assigned admins for action.

Supported Requests

Invitation request

Hacker News

Retrieves up to (N) top stories from YCombinator's Hacker News

New User

Manually triggered command to send a greeting to any member and push the MENA Dev's Code of Conduct to them in a private message sent by the Bot.

Lira

TBD @aymanfarhat

WolframAlpha

Integration with the computational knowledge engine. Used to answer a variety of calculable questions.

Configuration

The secrets.json file should contain a WolframAlpha app id as follows:

    "wolframalpha_app_id": "APP_ID"

Karma

Manages virtual points that can be given to a user as symbolic appreciation for a contribution in the community.

Corona

Fetches the latest statistics around the spread of COVID-19. Source: https://covid19api.com/

Contributing

We would very much appreciate any and all contributions for this project. Nevertheless, in order for us to manage this repository efficiently, please review and abide by the contribution guidelines detailed in this document: CONTRIBUTING.md before pushing your changes.

This project does not require a Contributor License Agreement.

License

mena-devs/bosta

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