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Limbo

A Slack chatbot

Installation

Clone the repo
Create a bot user if you don't have one yet, and copy the API Token
export SLACK_TOKEN="your-api-token"
make run (or make repl for local testing)
Invite Limbo into any channels you want it in, or just message it in #general. Try typing !gif dubstep cat to test it out

Command Arguments

--test, -t: Enter command line mode to enter a limbo repl.
--hook: Specify the hook to test. (Defaults to "message").
-c: Run a single command.
--database, -d: Where to store the limbo tinydb database. Defaults to log.json.
--pluginpath, -pp: The path where limbo should look to find its plugins (defaults to /plugins).

Environment Variables

SLACK_TOKEN: Slack API token. Required.
LIMBO_LOGLEVEL: The logging level. Defaults to INFO.
LIMBO_LOGFILE: File to log info to. Defaults to none.
LIMBO_LOGFORMAT: Format for log messages. Defaults to %(asctime)s:%(levelname)s:%(name)s:%(message)s.
LIMBO_PLUGINS: Comma-delimited string of plugins to load. Defaults to loading all plugins in the plugins directory (which defaults to "/plugins")

Commands

It's super easy to add your own commands! Just create a python file in the plugins directory with an on_message function that returns a string.

You can use the !help command to print out all available commands and a brief help message about them. !help <plugin> will return just the help for a particular plugin.

These are the current default plugins: