About

Ever use Piazza? You might get a lot of repetitive questions for which you'd like to give the same advice, or point to the same resources, or so on.

PotatoBot is a Piazza bot which automatically responds to questions!

Installation

PotatoBot is written for Python 3.

To launch PotatoBot, launch a PotatoBot profile with Python:

python profile281.py  # For EECS 281 at UM.

You will want to set the following environment variables:

PBOT_EMAIL: The email address of the PotatoBot account. (The PotatoBot account should be an instructor for maximum effectiveness, so that it can repsond to private posts.)
PBOT_PASSWORD: The password for the account.
PBOT_CLASS_CODE: The class code on Piazza. You can find this in the Piazza URL. It may look something like this: iiw12cde6ghij

See profile.py for an example.

PotatoBot is licensed under GPL v2. Additionally, when used for University of Michigan Piazza courses, please use the university PotatoBot account.