VK bot nodes for Node-RED

This package contains a receiver and a sender node which act as a Telegram Bot. The only thing required is the token that can be retrieved by the https://vk.com/club${id}?act=tokens.

Installation

You can install the nodes using node-red's "Manage palette" in the side bar.

Or run the following command in the root directory of your Node-RED installation

npm i node-red node-red-contrib-vk-io-bot --save -g

or

npm init -y
npm install node-red node-red-contrib-vk-io-bot --save

Note that the minimum node-red version 1.3.7 and minimum nodejs version is 12.x.

Start

node-red

Dependencies

The nodes are tested with Node.js v18.16.0 and Node-RED v3.0.2.

• vk-io

Usage

Basics

Config - First you need add config

• token (https://vk.com/club${id}?act=tokens)

Recipient - listens for all incoming messages

Sender - sends a message to the given user

Text and user ID can be set manually or passed to the input of the node

Event - listens for events through long polls and passes the events selected in the node configuration to the output

Callback-event -receives events from the outside and passes the events selected in the node configuration to the output.

To receive requests from VK servers, you need to add a node "http in", you also need to add "http response", from the node "http in" you need to add a thread to the input "callback-event"

Do not forget to confirm your server, for this, between the nodes "http in" and "http response" you need to add "template" with a response for confirmation and for a permanent response to incoming requests

Command - listens to specific messages through long polls for exact match or regular expression

Keyboard - visual keyboard builder