Botte Bot - RUDE-i

Features

This repository is used to create a Slack bot which can perform various things:

• Insult people
• Check the current weather at a given location
• Define a word you mentioned in a conversation
• Translate sentences
• ... More coming soon!

Get started

Installing

• Install python and pip3 for your OS.
• Install the requirements.txt file: pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• Get the necessary API keys for services (e.g. Google API key), and add them to a init.ini file which has to be created inside the config folder.
• Request the SQLite database file imaginelab.db from one of the authors, and add it to the data folder.

Debugging

• When developing modal, install a local tunnel and run the following command:
  lt -h http://loca.lt -p 3000 -s bottebot

• When debugging the database, use the 'DB Browser for SQLite' program to view and/or edit the database file.

To do

Features

• separate poll for voting restaurant
• Request all user info once a day, and based on the id, get all user info from a dict.
• Automatic setup of database schema (programmatically)
• bot should reply in thread when it was triggered from an existing thread (e.g. insult is posted separately now)
• Add more rickrolls

Known bugs

• Check issues with saving orders
• See also the database of bugs!

Authors

• Jan De Laet
• Thomas Janssen
• Liam Oorts

This project is part of the iMagineLab codehub. See imaginelab.club.