Errbot is a chatbot designed to be simple to extend with plugins written in Python.
Project description
Note: This is a forked version of Errbot. The main reason was, to be able to have an automated release process and release the changes often. The base for this fork was version 6.1.9 (commit: 7609f6c) from June 2023. The first released version here is 7.0.0 and contains all unreleased changes up to commit 0080eff1324930207f021f55674d5240abae172d from 2023-10-30.
Docker image: ghcr.io/hapag-lloyd/errbot-hl
PyPi package: errbot-hl
Errbot
Errbot is a chatbot. It allows you to start scripts interactively from your chatrooms for any reason: random humour, chatops, starting a build, monitoring commits, triggering alerts…
It is written and easily extensible in Python.
Errbot is available as open-source software and released under the GPL v3 license.
Features
Chat servers support
Built-in
IRC support
With add-ons
Slack support (See instructions)
Discord (See instructions)
Gitter support (See instructions)
Webex (See instructions)
Mattermost (See instructions)
RocketChat (See instructions)
Skype (See instructions)
TOX (See instructions)
VK (See instructions)
Zulip (See instructions)
Administration
After the initial installation and security setup, Errbot can be administered by just chatting to the bot (chatops).
install/uninstall/update/enable/disable private or public plugins hosted on git
plugins can be configured from chat
direct the bot to join/leave Multi User Chatrooms (MUC)
Security: ACL control feature (admin/user rights per command)
backup: an integrated command !backup creates a full export of persisted data.
logs: can be inspected from chat or streamed to Sentry.
Developer features
Very easy to extend in Python! (see below)
Presetup storage for every plugin i.e. self['foo'] = 'bar' persists the value.
Conversation flows to track conversation states from users.
Webhook callbacks support
supports markdown extras formatting with tables, embedded images, links etc.
configuration helper to allow your plugin to be configured by chat
Text development/debug consoles
Self-documenting: your docstrings become help automatically
subcommands and various arg parsing options are available (re, command line type)
polling support: your can setup a plugin to periodically do something
end to end test backend
card rendering under Slack
Community and support
If you have:
a quick question feel free to join us on chat at errbotio/errbot on Gitter.
a plugin development question please use Stackoverflow with the tags errbot and python.
a bug to report or a feature request, please use our GitHub project page.
You can also ping us on Twitter with the hashtag #errbot.
Installation
Prerequisites
Errbot runs under Python 3.6+ on Linux, Windows and Mac. For some chatting systems you’ll need a key or a login for your bot to access it.
Quickstart
We recommend to setup a virtualenv.
Install errbot from pip
Make a directory somewhere (here called errbot) to host Errbot’s data files
Initialize the directory
Try out Errbot in text mode
$ pip install errbot
$ mkdir errbot; cd errbot
$ errbot --init
$ errbot
It will show you a prompt >>> so you can talk to your bot directly! Try !help to get started.
Adding support for a chat system
For the built-ins, just use one of those options telegram, IRC, XMPP with pip, you can still do it after the initial installation to add the missing support for example
$ pip install "errbot[irc]"
For the external ones (Slack, Discord, Gitter, Skype, etc …), please follow their respective github pages for instructions.
Configuration
In order to configure Errbot to connect to one of those chat systems you’ll need to tweak the config.py file generated by errbot –init.
To help you, we have a documented template available here: config-template.py.
Note: even if you changed the BACKEND from the configuration, you can still use errbot -T to test out your instance locally in text mode.
Starting Errbot as a daemon
If all that worked, you can now use the -d (or –daemon) parameter to run it in a detached mode:
errbot --daemon
Interacting with the Bot
After starting Errbot, you should add the bot to your buddy list if you haven’t already. You’ll need to invite the bot explicitly to chatrooms on some chat systems too. You can now send commands directly to the bot!
To get a list of all available commands, you can issue:
!help
If you just wish to know more about a specific command you can issue:
!help command
Managing plugins
You can administer the bot in a one-on-one chat if your handle is in the BOT_ADMINS list in config.py.
For example to keyword search in the public plugin repos you can issue:
!repos search jira
To install a plugin from this list, issue:
!repos install <name of repo>
For example !repos install errbotio/err-imagebot.
Writing plugins
Writing your own plugins is extremely simple. errbot –init will have installed in the plugins subdirectory a plugin called err-example you can use as a base.
As an example, this is all it takes to create a “Hello, world!” plugin for Errbot:
from errbot import BotPlugin, botcmd
class Hello(BotPlugin):
"""Example 'Hello, world!' plugin for Errbot"""
@botcmd
def hello(self, msg, args):
"""Return the phrase "Hello, world!" to you"""
return "Hello, world!"
This plugin will create the command “!hello” which, when issued, returns “Hello, world!” to you. For more info on everything you can do with plugins, see the plugin development guide.
Contribution to Errbot itself
Feel free to fork and propose changes on github
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