Hubot Contribute.json

A hubot script for reading contribute.json files, joining the IRC channel therein, and welcomeing visitors when the channel is quiet with useful information from the contribution data.

This was heavily inspired by the excellent WelcomeBot and the contribute.json effort.

Designed specifically for use with the hubot IRC adaptor.

Features

• Will wait for the configured amount of time (1 minute by default) before saying anything to a new visitor.
• If any more new visitors join during the wait period the timer will start over and the resulting single message will welcome however many new users have joined.
• If there is any conversation happening in the channel by users that are not new the bot will not welcome anyone. It's meant to welcome users during quiet times.
• Remembers every nick it sees (even nick changes) and won't greet anyone twice (remembers over a restart as well if a persistent brain is used).
• Discovers who's in a channel when it joins and won't welcome any of them if they rejoin.
• Defaults to quiet mode when it first enters a channel. Will just idle in the channel and learn nicks. Say welcoming approved to it in the channel to have it start welcoming newcomers.

Installation

In your hubot project run npm install --save hubot-contributejson. Then add "hubot-contributejson" to your external-scripts.json. Also make sure hubot-auth is installed and in your external-scripts.json as well. You can optionally install hubot-cronjob to enable automatic updates for the contribute.json data nightly.

NOTE

It is highly recommended that you use a persistent hubot brain store (like hubot-redis-brain).

Configuration

All configuration is optional.

HUBOT_CONTRIBUTE_WELCOME_WAIT: Number of seconds to wait after a new user joins the channel and no one else speaks to say something. (default: 60)

HUBOT_CONTRIBUTE_ENABLE_CRON: Use the hubot-cronjob script to update all of the contribute.json data every night.

Commands

In order to run the following commands you must add yourself to the contributejson role via the hubot-auth script. From an admin user issue the following command: <hubot>: <user> has contributejson role. This will allow <user> to run the commands below.

<hubot>: contributejson list: List the channels and contribute.json URLs known by the bot.

<hubot>: contributejson add <url>: Add a contribute.json URL to the list and join the channel in the file.

<hubot>: contributejson rm [url]: Remove a contribute.json URL from the list and leave the channel. If run from the desired channel the [url] is optional.

<hubot>: contributejson update [url]: Update the data for the contribute.json URL or channel. If run from the desired channel the [url] is optional.

<hubot>: welcoming approved: Enable welcome messages to new users in the channel.

<hubot>: welcoming denied: Disable welcome messages to new users in the channel. Will just learn nicks. (default state)

License

Copyright 2015 Paul McLanahan

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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