SSH Botkit

An SSH Chat and Connector for Botkit

This is a SSH based chat server and botkit connector for testing bots in a chat-like environment.

The chat server is not a production-ready system. The goal here is to provide a simple chat-like interface to test your chatbot.

Installing

npm install --save botkit-ssh

botkit-ssh exports the start, chat, and listener.

start

The function start(config) starts a chat server and returns a bot controller that will receive events from the chat server.

The config.port parameter indicates the port that the chat server will listen on, it defaults to 51515.

The config.keyFilename should indicate the filename of the private host key for the ssh server, it defaults to './ssh/key'.

The following sample assumes that you have generated an ssh key in './ssh/key'.

const botkitSSH = require('botkit-ssh');

const controller = botkitSSH.start();
controller.spawn();

controller.hears('hello', 'message_received', function (bot, message) {
  bot.reply(message, 'Hello Yourself!');
});

Your chat username will be the ssh username, the password is 'password'.

chat and listener

Internally, start is starting a chat-server and an ssh-bot listening to it.

function start(config) {
  const _config = config || {};
  const _port = _config.port || 51515;
  const _keyFilename = _config.keyFilename || './ssh/key';

  const controller = listener(chat.chatBus);
  chat.server(_keyFilename).listen(_port, function () {
    console.log('Listening on port ' + this.address().port);
  });
  return controller;
}

Chat Commands

Quit

/q
/quit
/exit

Change Channels

New channels will automatically be created

/ch {channel name}

Direct Message Channels

DMs are treated like channels, accessed via the /dm command.

/dm {recipient}