What?

A simple Hubot adapter for gitter.im

How?

• Go to https://developer.gitter.im, login and get your own Personal Access Token (NOT your app token).
• Follow the instruction here to create your bot.
• In your bot folder, run npm i -S hubot-gitter
• Start your bot using this command,

TOKEN=<your Gitter Personal Access Token> ROOM="org/room1,org2/room3" ./bin/hubot -a gitter

You can let your bot join multiple rooms, each separates by comma (,)

• (Optional) Edit your package.json and add this to scripts

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "./bin/hubot --name tien -a gitter"
  }
}

Then you can start your bot with npm start. This is useful for deployment with Zeit (see below).

Deployment with Zeit

You can deploy your bot for free with Zeit. Assume that you are currently in your bot folder, the deploy command is:

now -e TOKEN=<your Gitter Personal Access Token> -e ROOM="org/room1,org2/room3" 

Zeit will automatically run npm start. Please note that Your code and logs will be made public. so be careful there.

It is possible that you would have multiple deployment with Zeit, resulting multiple instances of your bot joining the same rooms. To cure this, use now ls and now rm to delete old deployment.

Changelog

1.0.0

• Upgrade after a long time
• BREAKING: ROOM_ID was removed. Use ROOM instead.

0.0.2

• Utilize module node-gitter to interact with Gitter API
• Allow bot to join multiple rooms
• Change ROOM_ID to ROOM for shorter param name. ROOM_ID is still usable.

0.0.1

• Initial release