deltabot 0.6.0

Delta.Chat bot to reply to incoming messages in groups or 1:1 chats

A simple example “deltabot” that receives and sends messages for an e-mail account. It will reply to messages to it by echoing them back. It works as part of a group or in 1:1 chats in https://delta.chat applications (or even with regular email) and will also reply to regular e-mails. Deltabot supports Autocrypt end-to-end encryption but note that the operator of the “bot” service can look into messages that are sent to it.

install

To install make sure you have the python deltachat-bindings installed, at best in a virtualenv environment . Then install the bot:

pip install deltabot

starting the bot

First you need to provide an emailaddress and a password to allow the bot to receive and send messages for that address:

deltabot init [e-mail] password123

This command will try to contact the imap/smtp servers for example.org and logging in with the given e-mail address and password. Once this successfully completes, initialization is done and tested.

You can then let the bot listen continously:

deltabot serve

It will listen for incoming messages and reply to each of them.

To see some action install https://delta.chat and add your bot-email address as a contact and start chatting with it! You can also add the bot as a member to a group chat.

Looking at the code

Checkout this file which contains the definition of a command line client used above, and its interaction with the bindings (src/deltabot/cmdline.py):

https://github.com/deltachat/deltabot/blob/master/src/deltabot/cmdline.py